This slides deck includes the materials used in the webinar we hosted on data requirements to be included in a PEFCR document for the Environmental Footprint pilot phase. We gave this webinar on behalf of the Environmental Footprint team from the European Commission.

1. Webinar: Data requirements in PEFCRs
In context of EF pilot phase of European Commission DG-ENV
16 June 2015

2. Pilot phase is work in progress
• One of the pilot’s objectives is to set up and validate the process of the
development of Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules –
PEFCRs and Organizational Environmental Footprint Sector Rules –
OEFSRs, including the development of performance benchmarks
• Lessons learned will be documented and taken into account for further
improvement of the PEF/OEF guide
• This webinar aims to support you in applying the first part of the data
needs issue paper as approved by the EF Technical Advisory Board on 12
May 2015.
• A second webinar, on the application of the data needs issue paper
when implementing the PEFCR ,will be organized within one month from
now.

3. Outline of webinar
• Data quality requirements in PEFCRs
• What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
• How should pilots proceed?

4. Development process of PEFCR/OEFSR
Final PEFCR/OEFSR
Confirmation of benchmark(s) and determination
of performance classes (if appropriate)
PEFCR/OEFSR supporting studies
Second draft PEFCR/OEFSR
1st virtual consultation
First draft PEFCR/OEFSR
PEF/OEF screening
Define product/organization “model” based on
representative product/organization
Define PEF/OEF product category
Focus of this webinar
is data quality
requirements in
drafting a PEFCR

5. PEFCR sections
0. Introduction
1. General information about the PEFCR
2. Methodological inputs and compliance
3. PEFCR review and background information
4. PEFCR scope
5. Resource use and emissions profile
6. Benchmark and classes of performance
7. Interpretation
8. Reporting, Disclosure and Communication
9. Verification
10. Reference literature
11. Supporting information for the PEFCR
12. List of annexes
Source: PEF Guidance V4.0
• Screening step
• Data quality requirements
• Requirements regarding foreground
specific data collection
• Requirements regarding background
generic data and data gaps
• Data gaps
• Use stage
• Logistics
• End-of-life stage
• Requirements for multifunctional products
and multiproduct processes allocation
Focus of this webinar

6. Data quality
requirements in PEFCRs

7. Objectives
• Actively promote the provision of time, geography (including site) and process
specific primary data
• “Democratise” the use of PEF: accessible for SMEs and developing countries
• Implement the materiality principle (focus where it counts)
• More transparency and traceability of information
• Set up a system that will progressively harmonise the modelling of background
systems
• Final simplification can only be delivered by addressing and solving complexity
“behind the scenes” (like a watch). TSs play a master role there.
Constraints
• Only “cost free” secondary data can be used in final PEFCRs
Objectives and constraints

8. Data quality requirements
Six quality criteria are adopted
– Five relating to the data
– One relating to the methodology
Data quality criteria
1. Technological representativeness
2. Geographical representativeness
3. Time-related representativeness
4. Completeness
5. Parameter uncertainty
6. Methodological Appropriateness and Consistency*
* Only until end of 2015
Three criteria do not have
predefined requirements.
These are context specific and need
to be defined in the PEFCR/OEFSR.

9. 5. Processing plant – Production of the
main product
6. Transport and distribution to retail
7. Transport and distribution to consumer
homes
8. Product use
1. Raw material acquisition and
pre-processing
2. Packaging raw materials
sourcing and manufacturing
3. Transport to processing plant 4. Transport to processing plant
Upstream processes
Dowstream processes
9. End of life
Foreground and background in traditional LCA
Foreground processes

10. Foreground and background in the EF context
Two elements become relevant:
1. Which are the processes that are
driving the environmental profile
of the product (most relevant
processes)?
2. What is the level of influence
that the company performing the
study has on them?
1. Impact relevance
2.Levelofinfluence
Materiality approach:
Focus where it counts

11. What to do when
drafting the PEFCR?

12. Disclaimer
• In this webinar, we will use the PEF pilot of hot and cold water
pipes as an example.
– We would like to thank the TS of the pipes pilot for the willingness to
collaborate.
• For preparing this webinar, the training team relied on
existing information in the draft PEFCR on pipes, e.g. the list
of most relevant processes.
– Please note that the pipes pilot didn’t implement yet the data needs
paper v1.0 in their draft PEFCR.
– Examples used in the webinar were elaborated by the training team;
the TS is by no means bound to them.

13. Source: Draft PEFCR of pipes pilot

14. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
1) Identify the most relevant processes for each impact category
2) Provide a list of the activity data to be declared by the applicant for the most relevant
processes that can reasonably be expected to belong to the foreground system
3) Provide a list of process-independent activity data for the other processes belonging to the
foreground system
4) Provide default values for process-independent activity data for all most relevant processes
belonging to the background system
5) Suggest an optimal level of aggregation for "unit processes" for all most relevant processes
6) Provide for all most relevant processes tables with quality level values to be used by the
applicants when rating the DQRs
7) List of secondary datasets to be used when implementing the PEFCR
Source: Issue paper “Data requirements in Product Environmental
Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs)” v1.0 – 12 May 2015

15. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
1) Identify the most relevant processes for each impact category - all processes contributing
cumulatively to more than 80% of the impact, on basis of the screening study
Most relevant processes Most relevant processes
(positive impact)
Polyphenylene sulfide Lorry transport raw
materials to manufacturers
Tailings of uranium milling Waste incineration of
plastics
Electricity mix AC, at
consumer (<1kV)
Stainless steel (converter) Electricity mix AC, at
consumer (1kV-60kV)
Hardwood site
development
Vinyl fluoride Softwood Well for onshore oil
exploration and production
Resource correction
HDPE Landfill of spoil from lignite
mining
Copper cathode production Hardwood in forest
Production of primary raw
materials for copper alloy
fittings
Stainless steel (electric) Copper tube production
Aluminium casting, plant Natural gas combustion in
industrial furnace
Lorry transport of copper
scrap to EoL
Lorry transport to
installation site
Primary aluminium Landfill of glass
Landfill of plastic waste Secondary aluminium Van transport to installation
site
Source: Draft PEFCR of pipes pilot

16. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
1) Identify the most relevant processes for each impact category - all processes contributing
cumulatively to more than 80% of the impact, on basis of the screening study
Most relevant processes Most relevant processes
(positive impact)
Polyphenylene sulfide Lorry transport raw
materials to manufacturers
Tailings of uranium milling Waste incineration of
plastics
Electricity mix AC, at
consumer (<1kV)
Stainless steel (converter) Electricity mix AC, at
consumer (1kV-60kV)
Hardwood site
development
Vinyl fluoride Softwood Well for onshore oil
exploration and production
Resource correction
HDPE Landfill of spoil from lignite
mining
Copper cathode production Hardwood in forest
Production of primary raw
materials for copper alloy
fittings
Stainless steel (electric) Copper tube production
Aluminium casting, plant Natural gas combustion in
industrial furnace
Lorry transport of copper
scrap to EoL
Lorry transport to
installation site
Primary aluminium Landfill of glass
Landfill of plastic waste Secondary aluminium Van transport to installation
site
Source: Draft PEFCR of pipes pilot
I would like to recall that the implementation of the hotspots issue
paper is MANDATORY for all pilots. It has to be implemented already in
the draft PEFCR sent for approval to the SC.

17. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
2) Provide a list of the activity data to be declared by the applicant for the most relevant
processes that can reasonably be expected to belong to the foreground system
Electricity mix AC Lorry transport of raw materials to pipes manufacturer
For each raw material, the following shall be specified:
Activity data Amount Unit Quantity
Electricity consumed from the
country grid (further specified per
country when more than 1)
kWh Energy
Own electricity production from
wind power
kWh Energy
Own electricity production from
photovoltaic
kWh Energy
Other electricity source (specify
source)
kWh Energy
Activity data Amount Unit Quantity
Weight of raw material kg Mass
Distance between supplier of raw
material and manufacturer
km Distance
Source: Training team

18. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
2) Provide a list of the activity data to be declared by the applicant for the most relevant
processes that can reasonably be expected to belong to the foreground system
Bill of materials (BOM) of PEX piping system
The bill of materials (or list
of ingredients for food
products) shall be
considered as activity data.
Activity data Amount Unit Quantity
Length of PEX pipes m Length
Number of PPSU fittings P Amount
Number of PEX compression ring P Amount
Number of PVDF compression ring P Amount
Number of copper alloy fittings P Amount
Number of steel clamps P Amount

19. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
3) Provide a list of process-independent activity data for the other (not most relevant)
processes belonging to the foreground system
Van transport to installation site Pipes manufacturing site
Activity data Amount Unit Quantity
Distance travelled from
manufacturer to installation
site
km Distance
Mass of product transported kg Mass
Activity data Amount Unit Quantity
The number of pipes
manufacturing facility needed
per reference flow
p Amount
The time the equipment is
operated during 1 year
h Time
Source: Training team

20. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
4) Provide default values for process-independent activity data for all most relevant
processes belonging to the background system
• Default activity data are average values for activity data and shall reflect as much as
possible the reality of the market situation.
Landfill of plastic waste Well for onshore oil exploration and production
Tip: To simplify the amount of information to be collected, and having
in mind the materiality principle, the TS can decide to limit the activity
data to those that are known to drive the environmental impacts
related to each most relevant process.
Activity data Amount Unit Quantity
Sanitary landfill facility
needed per kg of plastic sent
to landfill
5∙10-12 p Amount
Amount of waste water
treatment plant needed to
treat the leachate per kg of
plastic sent to landfill
1∙10-13 p Amount
Activity data Amount Unit Quantity
Length of well needed per FU 5 m Length

21. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
5) Suggest an optimal level of aggregation for "unit processes" for all most relevant processes
Each TS should aim to "disaggregated" as much as possible the existing aggregated dataset
in order to identify a level of disaggregation that leads to better process-related information
without undermining reliability and protection of (really) confidential information.
Electricity
consumption mix
Electricity own
production
Own electrcity
production source
1 (e.g. wind)
Own electrcity
production source
2 (e.g. PV)
Electricity
consumption mix
country 1
…
Electricity
consumption mix
country n
Source: Training team

22. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
5) Suggest an optimal level of aggregation for "unit processes" for all most relevant processes
Manufacturing
of steel clamps
Metal working
machine
operation
Combustion of
light fuel oil
Light fuel oil at
refinery
Crude oil
production
onshore
Well for onshore
oil exploration
and production
Metal working
factory
The TS of the pipes pilot identified well for
onshore oil exploration and production as a
most relevant process. In the life cycle of piping
systems, this process constitutes a background
process contained upstream in the
manufacturing of steel clamps.

23. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
6) Provide for all most relevant processes tables with quality level values to be used by the
applicants when rating the DQRs
Example: Electricity mix AC, at consumer (50% NL, 30% FR, 16% ES, 4% own PV production)
Quality
rating
Time
representativeness
Technological representativeness Geographical representativeness
1 0-1.9 years with
respect to 2015
(2013-2014)
Representing the ratio between
different technologies for
electricity consumption mix and
incl. conversion losses
The electricity production sources are fully
representative for the geography covered (exact
consumption mix)
2 2-4.9 years with
respect to 2015
Representing the ratio between
different technologies for
electricity consumption mix and
excl. conversion losses
The electricity production sources are well
representative for the geography covered (< 5%
consumption not covered)
3 5-9.9 years with
respect to 2015
Using proxies for a few
technologies
The electricity production sources are sufficiently
representative for the geography covered (5-20%
geography not covered)
4 10-20 years with
respect to 2015
Considering production mix, thus
excl. import and export
The electricity production sources are only partly
representative for the geography covered (only 1
of the countries covered)
5 > 20 years with
respect to 2015
Using only one electricity
production technology
The electricity production sources are not
representative for the geography covered
Source: Training team

24. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
6) Provide for all most relevant processes tables with quality level values to be used by the
applicants when rating the DQRs
Example: Electricity mix AC, at consumer (50% NL, 30% FR, 16% ES, 4% own PV production)
Quality
rating
Time
representativeness
Technological representativeness Geographical representativeness
1 0-1.9 years with
respect to 2015
(2013-2014)
Representing the ratio between
different technologies for
electricity consumption mix and
incl. conversion losses
The electricity production sources are fully
representative for the geography covered (exact
consumption mix)
2 2-4.9 years with
respect to 2015
Representing the ratio between
different technologies for
electricity consumption mix and
excl. conversion losses
The electricity production sources are well
representative for the geography covered (< 5%
consumption not covered)
3 5-9.9 years with
respect to 2015
Using proxies for a few
technologies
The electricity production sources are sufficiently
representative for the geography covered (5-20%
geography not covered)
4 10-20 years with
respect to 2015
Considering production mix, thus
excl. import and export
The electricity production sources are only partly
representative for the geography covered (only 1
of the countries covered)
5 > 20 years with
respect to 2015
Using only one electricity
production technology
The electricity production sources are not
representative for the geography covered
Source: Training team
For the most relevant processes these three criteria shall be re-
calculated, by the applicant to get the context-specific DQR.
The role of the PEFCR is to provide, for each relevant process, a
Table assigning the respective scores according to the different
possible situation.

25. What to do when drafting the PEFCR?
7) List of secondary datasets to be used when implementing the PEFCR
 The draft PEFCR of the pipes pilot indicates for each life cycle stage and process which
secondary dataset to be used.
Source: Excel document “Data overview PEF
pilot hot and cold-20150609_evening version”
Life cycle stage Process LCI database
Raw material acquisition and
pre-processing
LDPE packaging film Plastics Europe (2014)
Raw material acquisition and
pre-processing
Aluminium sheet Data from the EAA
Raw material acquisition and
pre-processing
Lorry transport ELCD
Manufacturing of fitting Average metal working GaBi/World Steel database for
steel manufacturing
End of life Diesel consumption for
mechanical operations
Ecoinvent

26. How should pilots
proceed?

27. How should pilots proceed?
• TSs are not obliged to implement the requirements included
in the data needs paper v1.0 already in the first draft PEFCR
• to have the data requirements tested in at least 1 supporting
study per pilot
• for supporting studies not implementing the data
requirements v1.0 the approach to be used is the baseline
one indicated in the PEF method (Table 4, section 5.6)

28. Contact details
Marisa Vieira| vieira@pre-sustainability.com
Ellen Brilhuis-Meijer| brilhuis@pre-sustainability.com
Annemarie Kerkhof | a.kerkhof@ecofys.com
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