ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 14045 First edition 2012-05-15 Environmental management Eco- efficiency assessment of product systems Principles, requirements and guidelines Management environnemental-Evaluation de I'écoefficacite des systemes de produits Principes, exigences et lignes directrices Reference number ISO 14045:2012(E) LSO @ISO2012 py IHS under lic itted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO14045:2012(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ISO2012 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 · CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ ISO 2012 -All rights reserved No reproductic etworking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 14045:2012(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction 1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions. 4 General description of eco-efficiency. 4.1 Principles of eco-efficiency.. 4.2 Phases of an eco-efficiency assessment 4.3 Keyfeaturesofaneco-efficiencyassessment.. 5 Methodologicalframework 5 5.1 General requirements. 5.2 Goal and scope definition (including system boundaries, interpretation and limitations) 5.3 Environmental assessment. 5.4 Productsystemvalueassessment 8 5.5 Quantification of eco-efficiency 9 5.6 Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis 9 5.7 Interpretation.... 9 6 Reporting and disclosure of results.. 10 6.1 General requirements... 10 6.2 Further reporting requirements for comparative eco-efficiency assertion intended to be disclosed to the public.... 10 7 Critical review 11 7.1 General.. 11 7.2 Critical review by internal or external expert. 11 7.3 Critical review by panel of interested parties ..12 Annex A (informative) Examples of functional value, monetary value, other values and value indicators . .13 Annex B (informative) Examples of eco-efficiency assessment. .14 Bibliography 38 ili cense from IHS Not for Resale