Definitions

For the purposes of this Annex, the following definitions shall apply: ‘activity data’ means the information associated with processes while modelling Life-Cycle Inventories (LCI), whereby the aggregated LCI results of the process chains that represent the activities of a process are each multiplied by the corresponding activity data and then combined to derive the environmental footprint associated with that process; ‘bill of materials’ means list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts and the quantities of each needed to manufacture the product in scope of the study; ‘company-specific data’ or ‘primary data’ means directly measured or collated data from one or multiple facilities (site-specific data) that are representative for the activities of the company; ‘impact assessment method’ means the protocol for quantitative translation of life-cycle inventory data into contributions to an environmental impact of concern; ‘impact category’ means a class of resource use or environmental impact to which the life-cycle inventory data are related; ‘life cycle’ means the consecutive and interlinked stages of a product system, from raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources to final disposal (ISO 14040:2006); ‘life-cycle inventory’ or ‘LCI’ means the combined set of exchanges of elementary, waste and product flows in a LCI dataset; ‘life-cycle inventory dataset’ or ‘LCI dataset’ means a document or file with life-cycle information of a specified product or other reference, such as the site or the process, covering descriptive metadata and quantitative life-cycle inventory and can be a unit process dataset, partially aggregated or an aggregated dataset; ‘secondary data’ means data not from a specific process within the supply-chain of the company performing an environmental footprint study, namely data that is not directly collated, measured, or estimated by the company, but sourced from a third party LCI database or other sources, including industry average data — such as from published production data, government statistics, and industry associations — literature studies, engineering studies and patents, and may also be based on financial data, and contain proxy data, and other generic data and including primary data that go through a horizontal aggregation step; ‘system boundary’ means the aspects included or excluded from the life-cycle study. The calculation rules for the environmental footprint of a critical raw material shall include any further definition necessary for their interpretation.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-13 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.