ISO 14006, ''Environmental management systems - Guidelines for incorporating ecodesign'', is an international standard that specifies guidelines to help organizations establish, document, implement, maintain, and continuously improve their ecodesign management as part of the environmental management system. The standard is intended to be used by organizations that have implemented an environmental management system in compliance with
ISO 14001
ISO 14000 is a family of standards related to environmental management that exists to help organizations (a) minimize how their operations (processes, etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); (b ...
, but can help to integrate ecodesign into other management systems. The guideline is applicable to any organization regardless of its size or activity.
Edition and revision
ISO 14006 was developed by ISO/TC207/SC1 Environmental management systems, and was published for the first time in July 2011. The second edition was published in January 2020.
ISO/TC 207 was established in the year 1993.
Main requirements of the standard
The '' 'ISO 14006' '' adopts a scheme in 5 chapters in the following subdivision:
* 1 Scope
* 2 Normative references
* 3 Terms and definitions
* 4 Role of top management in eco-design
* 5 Guidelines for incorporating ecodesing into an EMS
* 6 Ecodesign activities in product design and development
History
Notes
Related entries
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ISO 14000
ISO 14000 is a family of standards related to environmental management that exists to help organizations (a) minimize how their operations (processes, etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); (b ...
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Environmental management system
An environmental management system (EMS) is "a system and database which integrates procedures and processes for training of personnel, monitoring, summarizing, and reporting of specialized environmental performance information to internal and exte ...
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Ecodesign
Ecological design or ecodesign is an approach to designing products and services that gives special consideration to the environmental impacts of a product over its entire lifecycle. Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan define it as "any form of de ...
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ISO standard
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Art ...
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(ISO)
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European Committee for Standardization
The European Committee for Standardization (CEN, french: Comité Européen de Normalisation) is a public standards organization whose mission is to foster the economy of the European Single Market and the wider European continent in global tr ...
(CEN)
External links
ISO 14006Environmental management systems - Guidelines for the integration of eco-design.
Environmental management systems.
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Technical specifications