In Europe, legislations like the European Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), the Ecodesign Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and the Critical Raw Material Act (CRM act) imply a need for the assessment of product properties that fall under the categories of circularity and sustainability. Following this development different stakeholders have developed a steadily growing number of assessment methodologies and tools. This results for the CE-RISE project in the need to:
- Systematically map existing and upcoming methodologies for these assessments.
- Analyse and harmonise these methodologies to make them comparable.
- Identify product properties that are (potentially) relevant for circularity and sustainability
assessment.
These objectives were allocated by the CE-RISE project to Task 1.2. In the context of this task legislations, standards, certificates and product labels relevant for the assessment of product’s circularity and sustainability assessment were systematically mapped. The results, key findings and conclusions of this process are documented in this report.