TC38-TG3 - Environmental Declarations

Upcoming meetings

14-15 November 2007 in Stuttgart (hosted by IBM) with TC38
Several webmeetings until March 2008.

Above TG3 meetings will develop the 3^rd edition of ECMA-370 and address declaration users’ comments. The final draft is expected in 2008.

Activities

Promote The Eco Declaration standard ECMA-370 for broad usage in EU with focus on green public procurement. ECMA-370 was presented at the following larger public events:

EU Green Procurement Conference, Graz
EU Green Procurement Conference, Barcelona
Swedish ICT Week fare, Stockholm
EICTA Eco Design Group meeting, Brussels
Japanese Business Council Europe , Brussels
Care Innovation 2006 conference, Vienna
Inter-Noise 2006, Honolulu.

For more information please see the paper and the presentation for the Care Innovation 2006 conference and www.itecodeclaration.org/.

Future subjects

Development of ECMA-370 to be more flexible, global as well as harmonised with regional activities in order to be fully applicable to an international market such as:

Investigate harmonisation and deployment in Asia (e.g. Japan)
Investigate harmonisation possibilities with IEEE P1680 being the base for EPEAT (Type I eco label in the United States).

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