Frequent Asked Questions

Product Category Rules (PCR) provide rules for how to develop an EPD for a specific product category, including instructions for the underlying life cycle assessment (LCA) and other content of the EPD.

PCRs are developed in the framework of a programme operating following ISO 14025.

Life cycle assessment is the best-known quantitative analysis of the environmental aspects of a product overall its life cycle stages.

An LCA is an ISO Standard systematic method that enables the analysis of environmental loads of a product throughout its entire life cycle and the potential impacts of these loads on the environment

An EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) is a verified and registered document that communicates transparent and comparable information about the life-cycle environmental impact of products.

Having an EPD for a product does not imply that the declared product is environmentally superior to alternatives — it is simply a transparent declaration of the life-cycle environmental impact.

An EPD is created and registered in the framework of a programme based on ISO 14025.

No, EPD is developed based on the results of the life-cycle environmental impacts calculated in the LCA study of products.

EPDs can be Single Company EPD, Group EPD, Average EPD, Project EPD, etc. For more information click, click on this link: EPD Types

1. Find or create relevant PCR documents for the product category,
2. Perform LCA study based on PCR,
3. Compiling environmental information into the EPD reporting format,
4. Verification,
5. Registration and publication.

You can know more details from here.

1. Firstly, you have to complete the LCA and EPD reports and get a verification for them then, start the registration process.The process to register for EPD at EPD Egypt is as follows:
   1. Send a request for registering the EPD(s) to the EPD Egypt technical office email with Completed EPDs and Verification Reports via: technical-office@epdegypt.com
   2. EPD Egypt will send:
   • Registration form for the company to fill it.
   • Reference number(s) for EPD(s)
   • Excel templates for machine-readable EPDs” for EPDs to be registered.

   Once the registration form is received and the templates mentioned in Step 2 are also received, we will send the invoice based on the registration form.

2. EPD Egypt receives payment from the company and completes company registration and EPD publication on EPD Egypt and EPD International System Portal.

No, as the EPD is for products in Egyptian producers, they need to register through EPD Egypt.

To get verification to your EPD, you have to contact an accredited verifier from the EPD International System. You can find it in the EPD Portal by following these steps:

• Create an organization for your company,
• Create an EPD object in the company dashboard,
• View step 1 in the EPD object and find the field for adding the verifier,
• Click on “find more”. You will see the list of approved verifiers and if you click on each one you will find a button called “Inquire collaboration”. When you click this an e-mail will be sent to the verifier and they will reach out to respond to your query.

Conducting an LCA study following the PCR may take anywhere between 1-12 months depending on the availability of data and the amount of LCA work that has been done in the company to date. If a PCR is being developed, the LCA study may be carried out in parallel to drafting the document (Transfer LCA into EPD format).

The LCA/ EPD verification process may take 1-6 months to get verification. It is recommended to make contact with a potential verifier early on in the process so that this step may start as soon as the LCA study is done, and the information compiled into the EPD reporting format.

After verification is completed, registration by the Secretariat upon receiving the complete documentation normally takes 1-3 working days.

The EPD validity is normally Five Years. An expired EPD can still be published to give environmental information for products still in use but may not be used in marketing.

EPD Egypt has two types of fees: a registration fee (one-time fee) and an annual fee paid per organization. You can learn more about the registration fee from here.

There is no fee for updating already-registered EPDs for EPD registrations via the EPD International Secretariat. This is included in the annual fee.

The potential uses and applications include:

• Green public procurement (GPP)
• Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
• Eco-design
• Business-to-business communication
• Business-to-consumer communication
• Building assessment schemes

A Climate Declaration is a single-issue declaration focused on the carbon footprint of the product. The emissions of greenhouse gases of a product are reported in kg CO2 equivalents from the different life cycle stages of the product.

Climate Declarations may be published based on a registered EPD, or if the full information about the other types of environmental impact of the product is available upon request. The Climate declaration shall give information on how to obtain information on the full environmental impact of the declared product.