Luis Delgado Sancho | Environment Coordinator, DG JRC/IPTS, Spain Environmental Performance Verification General Principles, Definitions and main Actors.

Luis Delgado Sancho | Environment Coordinator, DG JRC/IPTS, Spain

Environmental Performance Verification

General Principles, Definitions and main Actors

Luis Delgado SanchoSpyridon Merkourakis

http://www.jrc.es/

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Accelerate diffusion –market acceptance – of innovative technologies by:

• Objectively validating their performance • Increasing purchasers’ confidence in new technologies

EPV: Objective

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To establish or prove the truth of the performance of a technology under specific, predetermined criteria or protocols and adequate data quality assurance procedures (from US ETV glossary)

•Build confidence to buyers•Independent 3rd party verification•Protocols/test plans designed to suit specific technologies•Stakeholder input•No single definition of verification

Verification: definition

What EPV is not?

EPV is NOT certification (ISO, CEN, National systems…):

EPV does not verify against a standard (or minimum performance requirements), but can use standards and modify them

EPV does not necessarily use laboratories/personnel that are certified for specific tests/tasks

EPV does not supervise sound manufacturing

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Verification: disambiguation

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Available in the Market

Certification

Self Declarations

EPVR&D

No need for certification, but need for credible

performance data

Compliance to standards

No standards exist

Early research

Prototypes, Demonstration

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The “positioning” of EPV


EPV managing organisation

VerificationCentre

Thematic VO

Vendor

Stakeholders

Contact Points

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The main actors

TestingLaboratory


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EPV managing organisationlays the foundations of the verification

program

Defines the scope, objectives, strategies and administrative protocols

Coordinates and supervises the verification process

Is responsible for the compliance with the objectives and quality management procedures

Designates the thematic VOs

Awards certificates and logos to successful vendors


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The Thematic VOimplements the verification process

Processes the vendor applications

Appoints test laboratories to perform the tests or verification centres to verify the vendor’s claims, verifying their accreditation

Collaborates with the stakeholder groups

Reviews and approves the verifications reports and disseminates the results of the program


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The testing laboratory

Collaborates in the development of protocols

Develops the test plans

Executes the tests

Respects protocols and quality management procedures

Writes the test report


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The verification centreused when the system

performs claim verification

Examines the vendor data and verifies if they support the accompanying claims

Proposes the repetition of tests, if the data quality is not adequate

Respects the quality management procedures of the system

Writes the verification report


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The stakeholder groups

assure the credibility of the system

Involved in the development and review of the system’s “verification tools”: test protocols, test plans, quality management plans

Involved in technology prioritization

Involved in the selection of testing laboratories and verification centres


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The vendorProvides a claim accompanied by supporting data OR the technology to be verified and advice/training on how to perform the tests

Actively collaborates with the other EPV actors, depending on the specific design of the system


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The network of contact pointsEstablish a relation of proximity between EPV and the vendors, diminishing any geographical distance, language or administrative barriers

Active in communicating on EPV, explaining the EPV concept and the advantages that it can bring to its end users

Their hosting establishment is variable: testing laboratories, certification organisations, innovation relay centres, Euro Info Centres, national ministries of the environment etc.


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ETVS model : different possibilities

Verification tools

EU ETV Team

Promotion

Execution of tests/verification

Execute tests using predefined protocols and test plans

Verify the data

Network of national/regional/local

“ETV points”

Review and approval of verification report

Awarding certificate/logo

Review of applications

Dissemination of results

Write verification report

Appoint thematic verification

organisations (VO)

Stakeholders group(s)

Auditing the VOs(Quality Management)

Designate and coordinate the stakeholders group(s)

Test labs / verification centres

Thematic VO

Vendor

ETV Team

Promotion


Execute tests using predefined protocols and test plans*

Verify the data


“ETV points”

verification report






organisations (VO)




Define quality management plan

Develop verification tools



Decides on program scope, objective and strategyDevelops program level protocolsAudits, evaluatesVerifies cost effectiveness

Xxxx

XXX

Xxxx

Organisation

Component of program

Task

Organisation involved in

Organisation responsible for

Establish test plans*

Establish protocols*

Define minimum performance requirements (if relevant)

Appoint Test Lab or Verification Centre

* Technology testing is done inside the ETV system

ETVS model : different possibilities

Verification tools

EU ETV Team

Promotion


Execute tests using predefined protocols and test plans

Verify the data


“ETV points”

Review and approval of verification report






organisations (VO)




Test labs / verification centres

Thematic VO

Vendor

ETV Team

Promotion


Execute tests using predefined protocols and test plans*

Verify the data


“ETV points”

verification report






organisations (VO)








Decides on program scope, objective and strategyDevelops program level protocolsAudits, evaluatesVerifies cost effectiveness

Xxxx

XXX

Xxxx

Organisation


Task

Organisation involved inXxxx

XXX

Xxxx

Organisation


Task

Organisation involved in

Organisation responsible for

Establish test plans*

Establish protocols*

Define minimum performance requirements (if relevant)

Appoint Test Lab or Verification Centre

* Technology testing is done inside the ETV system

EPV system: different possibilities

Open questions

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Is EPV an efficient tool to diffuse innovative technologies?

Verification or certification?

Prototypes or ready to market technologies?

Verification: claim verification? full testing? combination?

Centralised EU system?

Are there all the actors necessary for all EPV systems? Are there any crucial actors missing?

Thematic organisation: Sectoral? Multisectoral? One for the whole EU for each technology?


Open questions

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Testing labs: certified? Which type of certification?

Stakeholders: Independent experts? Nominated by associations? Efficient composition and size?

Role of contact points? National?

Should verification and testing always belong to separate organisations?

Are there any possible conflicts when a system performs both claim verification and tests?

Vendors: how to encourage participation in the system?


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Contact details

European CommissionJoint Research Centre

Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

Competitiveness and Sustainability UnitEdificio Expo – c/Inca Garcilaso, s/n –

E41092 SevilleEmail: [email protected] – [email protected]

http://www.jrc.es/

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Luis Delgado Sancho | Environment Coordinator, DG JRC/IPTS, Spain Environmental Performance Verification General Principles, Definitions and main Actors.

Documents

ecoinnovation slide

european forum

ecoinnovation epv system

verification centres

verification report

epv actors

positioning of epv paris

claim verification