The market acceptance of EPDs relies on the publication of environmental information that is reliable and trustworthy. The underlying life cycle assessment (LCA), data, data handling and the EPD itself are, therefore subject to verification.
There are three alternatives for verification:
Verification of the LCA background report and the EPD by an approved individual verifier or an accredited certification body; or
Certification of an organisation’s internal process to create and verify EPDs according to the General Programme Instructions. Only accredited certification bodies are allowed to certify an EPD Process.
The application of these tools simplifies the individual EPD verification or replaces it with an annual EPD verification. Any tool can be used for EPD development, but only tools that have undergone tool verification conducted by an approved tool verifier can be recognised as pre-verified tools.
A list of current approved individual verifiers and accredited certification bodies is available here
The verification must be transparent and result in a report in English documenting the verification process while adhering to the rules of data confidentiality. The signed verification report must be included in the application for EPD registration and available to any person upon request.
For construction product EPDs a mandatory checklist/verification report template has been developed and is available here.
All verification reports must state if the verification is the first to be done by the verifier for publication by EPD Australasia, as this verification will be subject to an additional check by the EPD Australasia Technical Advisory Group.
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