Green Product Certification - Guideline Over View
The ISO 14024 standard establishes the principles and procedures for ecolabels and certifications that are verified by a third party, ensuring that consumers and professional purchasers are given accurate, comparable information.
This is an overview of the standard
- Voluntary nature
- ISO 14020 Principles apply
- Applicants comply with environmental and other relevant legislation
- Criteria development includes comprehensive life cycle consideration approach
- Environmental criteria differentiate environmentally preferable products from others
- Criteria based on indicators arising from life cycle considerations
- Fitness for purpose and levels of performance taken into account in developing criteria
- Criteria are set with a predefined validity period. Criteria and product function requirements are reviewed, and potentially revised, within a predefined time period
- Formal open participation process for selection and review of product categories, environmental criteria and product function characteristics
- All environmental criteria & function characteristics are verifiable. Compliance assessment incorporates generally acceptable standards and methods
- Transparency exists through all stages of ecolabelling program development and operation
- Unnecessary obstacles to international trade don’t exist
- Application and participation is open to all potential applicants
- Development and selection of criteria based on sound scientific and engineering principles
- Program is free from undue influence
- Any fees are kept as low as possible and applied equitably to all applicants and licensees
- Confidentiality of pertinent information is maintained
- Mutual recognition is deemed desirable