7th Apr 2021
An update to the General Programme Instructions (GPI’s), version 4.0 has recently been published, setting a new set of rules for operation and management of the International EPD® System according to ISO 14025. The update has been made to stay relevant and up-to-date following international developments in methodology, standardisation, research and applications of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), continuing organisations to communicate the environmental impacts of their products in a quantitative, credible, comparable and understandable way based on international standards. These International GPI’s are used in conjunction with the Australasian Regional annex to the GPI for EPDs published with EPD Australasia.
Some of the new features of the new GPI are:
The new GPI’s can be found here. Please contact the Secretariat if you have any questions regarding these changes.
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