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IBO - Environmental and Health related Criteria for Buildings best products in the market. Table 29 shows exemplarily the natureplus’ requirements on VOC-emissions from building products. Table 29: Limits for VOC-emissions set by the international ecolabel “natureplus” (2) 36 μg/m³ = 0.03 ppm (3) If binding agents based upon polymer MDI (PMDI) have been employed. Additionally to ecolabels a number of voluntary labelling schemes especially for low emitting products (e.g. EMICODE, Germany or M1, Finland) exist in Europe. The also existing mandatory systems in Germany and France have already been mentioned. Each system has its own specific requirements for testing and criteria for product evaluation. A preparatory EU Final Report 148 31 03 2011
IBO - Environmental and Health related Criteria for Buildings expert group convened by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) promotes and seeks consensus between the indoor material labelling schemes. The result should be a harmonised framework for indoor labelling schemes in Europe and link them to legislation: “The intention is to align the harmonised framework across various legislative mandates, such as, Construction Products Directive (89/106/EEC), Energy Performance of Buildings Directive – EPBD (2002/91/EC), EC Lead Market Initiative (COM(2007)860), Integrated Product Policy (IPP), Chemicals Policy (REACH), Green Public Procurement, Thematic Strategy on Urban Environment (COM(2004)60), Integration of Environmental Aspects into European Standardisation (COM(2004)206), etc.” (ECA-IAQ, 2010) In ECA-IAG draft report n° 27 (ECA-IAQ, 2010) a first step was taken in direction of a consensus achieved among the representatives of the Danish (DICL) and Finnish (M1) labelling schemes and the German (AgBB) and French (AFSSET) evaluation systems. This framework envisions - common core criteria on testing and evaluation methodologies to be accepted by consensus and - optional criteria to be applied locally for those substances/factors for which no consensus exists yet. The criteria were suggested taking into consideration the results of round robin testing of products. This round robin testing was performed according to the individual schemes and the on-going work within the European standardisation body (CEN/TC 351). The main findings in ECA-EAQ draft report n°27 are: - Until harmonised standards become available, ISO 16000-series standards should be used for measurement with two exceptions: - A reference room size has already been proposed and shall be used instead of the ISO 16000-9 informative annex B. - Emission testing should include two chamber air sampling times (day 3 and 28) - The evaluation criteria should cover all contaminants of concern to health and comfort and be based on scientific evidence when available. - TVOC should not be used alone as an indicator for evaluating health effects from indoor material emissions. A common approach for TVOC definition along with an upper limit for TVOC should be established. - If volatile compounds classified as EU carcinogens are detected after 3 days, the test can be stopped. - The LCI-approach is currently the most feasible strategy beyond the evaluated schemes to assess the health effects of compounds from buildings materials. An expert group should be initiated to propose common European LCI-criteria. Criteria should be set also for substances not having LCI values (i.e., “non-assessable” substances). - Sensory evaluation is considered to be an important part in the assessment of material emissions. Table 30 gives an overview about the consensus reached for the measurement methods, the core and the optional criteria (ECA-EAQ, 2010). Final Report 149 31 03 2011
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