What does PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) mean?
PEF is an EU method for assessing a product's environmental footprint across its life cycle.
PEF builds on LCA under ISO 14040/14044 and is intended to make environmental information more reliable, comparable and verifiable. Comparability only works within the same Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) or technically comparable product categories.
Why does it matter for DPP and compliance?
PEF can become relevant for DPP fields such as environmental footprint, carbon figures or resource use when a delegated act requires those data points. The product passport should then carry method, PEFCR, data sources, system boundaries and verification status.
What should teams prepare?
Companies should not store PEF data as an isolated score. Functional unit, system boundaries, impact categories, databases used, calculation date, product variant, approval status and evidence source matter.
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