CEN/TR 14310:2002

Freight transportation services - Declaration and reporting of environmental performance in freight transport chains

This European Prestandard is a guideline for preparing environmental declarations and reporting. The guideline recommends the content and structure for documentation and evaluation of environmental performance in freight transportation. The guideline is applicable to freight transport purchasers and freight transport operators. Reliability and trustworthiness are essential to the use and acceptance of eco reporting. When specific data is not available it is therefore paramount to use commonly acknowledged data.
The calculations and results should be presented in a transparent and true way that aids the evaluation of the environmental performance of a given freight transport. As a rule of thumb, it can be said that when the method, used for calculating the energy consumption and emissions for one customer, is extended to all the costumers of a transport company, then all transport related energy consumption and emissions from that transport company should be accounted for.

Frachttransporte - Deklarierung und Berichterstattung zum Umweltverhalten in Frachttransportketten

Diese Europäische Vornorm ist eine Richtlinie zur Vorbereitung von Umweltdeklarierungen und Umweltbericht-erstattungen. Diese Richtlinie gibt inhaltliche und strukturelle Empfehlungen zu Dokumentation und Bewertung des Umweltverhaltens beim Frachttransport. Die Richtlinie gilt für Frachttransportkunden und -unternehmer. Für die Anwendung und Akzeptanz der Umweltberichterstattung sind Zuverlässlichkeit und Vertrauenswürdigkeit unab-dingbar. Für den Fall, dass keine spezifischen Daten verfügbar sind, ist es daher von größter Wichtigkeit, allgemein anerkannte Daten zu verwenden.
Die Berechnungen und deren Ergebnisse sollten in transparenter und ehrlicher Weise dargestellt werden, damit die Bewertung des Umweltverhaltens bei einem gegebenen Frachttransport erleichtert wird. Grundsätzlich gilt, wenn das Verfahren zur Berechnung des Energieverbrauchs und der Emissionen für einen Kunden auf alle Kunden eines Transportunternehmens angewendet wird, sollten die Werte für den gesamten transportbezogenen Energie-verbrauch und alle transportbezogenen Emissionen des Unternehmens vorgelegt werden.

Services de transport - Déclaration et rapport de la performance de l'environnement en chaînes de transport de marchandises

Transport - Tovorni transport - Napoved in poročanje o okoljevarstvenih vplivih pri sistemih za transport tovora

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 24-Sep-2002
• ICS: 55.020 - Packaging and distribution of goods in general
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 320 - Transport - Logistics and services
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 320/WG 2 - Freight transport
• Current Stage: 6060 - Definitive text made available (DAV) - Publishing
• Start Date: 25-Sep-2002
• Completion Date: 25-Sep-2002
• Ref Project: SIST CEN/TR 14310:2003 - Freight transportation services - Declaration and reporting of environmental performance in freight transport chains

Overview

CEN/TR 14310:2002 - Freight transportation services: Declaration and reporting of environmental performance in freight transport chains - is a CEN Technical Report that provides a harmonized guideline for preparing environmental declarations and reports covering energy use and emissions across multimodal freight transport. It is a non‑prescriptive framework intended to improve transparency and comparability of eco‑reporting for road, rail, sea and inland navigation transport chains. The report emphasizes trustworthiness of data and the use of commonly acknowledged data where specific measurements are unavailable.

Key topics and requirements

• Scope and purpose
  • Guideline for documentation and evaluation of environmental performance in freight transport chains.
  • Applicable to freight transport purchasers and operators.
• Minimum content and structure (recommended):
  • Transport profile: identification (period, customer), weight/dimensions, origin/destination, modes involved.
  • Basic transport data per mode: distance (km), transport work (t·km).
  • Calculated transport data per mode: energy use (litres, MJ, kWh), emissions (CO2, NOx, SOx, HC, CO, PM) in g or kg.
  • Documentation: calculation method, data sources, system boundaries, treatment of average vs specific data.
  • Issuer: clear identification of the company or person responsible for the declaration.
• Mode‑specific information
  • Road: vehicle description, EURO standard/year, capacity utilisation, fuel type and sulphur/energy contents.
  • Rail: train/locomotive description, share of diesel vs electric traction, kWh and primary energy reporting.
  • Sea/inland navigation: ship type, year, capacity (TEU, lane metre), ballast share, fuel type and consumption.
• Transparency principle
  • Results must be presented in a transparent and truthful way; if a method used for a customer is extrapolated company‑wide, all related energy and emissions should be accounted for.
• Non‑prescriptive
  • The report does not mandate specific calculation models; it recommends consistent reporting formats and cites examples (Annex A & B).

Applications

• Preparing environmental declarations for freight shipments and multimodal transport chains.
• Supporting LCA, green accounting, KPI tracking, environmental benchmarking, and environmental labelling initiatives.
• Feeding data for certification and management systems (EMAS, ISO 14001) and internal sustainability reporting.
• Enabling procurement teams to compare suppliers on environmental performance.

Who uses it

• Freight transport operators and logistics providers
• Shippers and freight purchasers
• Environmental managers, LCA practitioners, sustainability officers
• Regulators and auditors seeking harmonized reporting inputs

Related standards

• Compatible with environmental management and reporting frameworks such as ISO 14001 and EMAS; useful input for LCA, KPI frameworks and environmental declarations used in supply‑chain sustainability.

Keywords: environmental performance, freight transport chains, emissions reporting, energy consumption, multimodal transport, eco reporting, freight transport operators, environmental declaration.

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-maj-2003
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Freight transportation services - Declaration and reporting of environmental performance
in freight transport chains
Frachttransporte - Deklarierung und Berichterstattung zum Umweltverhalten in
Frachttransportketten
Services de transport - Déclaration et rapport de la performance de l'environnement en
chaînes de transport de marchandises
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TR 14310:2002
ICS:
13.020.30 Ocenjevanje vpliva na okolje Environmental impact
assessment
55.020 Pakiranje in distribucija blaga Packaging and distribution of
na splošno goods in general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

TECHNICAL REPORT
CEN/TR 14310
RAPPORT TECHNIQUE
TECHNISCHER BERICHT
September 2002
ICS 55.020
English version
Freight transportation services – Declaration and reporting of
environmental performance in freight transport chains
Services de transport - Déclaration et rapport de la Frachttransporte - Deklarierung und Berichterstattung zum
performance de l'environnement en chaînes de transport Umweltverhalten in Frachttransportketten
de marchandises
This Technical Report was approved by CEN on 2001-12-23. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 320.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION
COMITÉ EUROPÉEN DE NORMALISATION
EUROPÄISCHES KOMITEE FÜR NORMUNG
Management Centre: rue de Stassart, 36  B-1050 Brussels
© 2002 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved Ref. No. CEN/TR 14310:2002 E
worldwide for CEN national Members.

Contents
Foreword.3
Introduction .4
1 Scope .4
2 Terms and definitions .4
3 Content and structure .5
3.1 General recommendations.5
3.2 Information on road transport.5
3.3 Information on rail transport .6
3.4 Information on sea transport and inland navigation.6
3.5 Information on other conditions.7
Annex A (Informative) Examples of declarations for road transport.8
Annex B (Informative) Example of a declaration for multimodal transport .10
Foreword
This Technical Report (CEN/TR 14310:2002) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 320,
"Transport, Logistics and Services”, the secretariat of which is held by DS.
Introduction
It is necessary for the proper including of transport in the different environmental activities in companies that there
is a harmonized standard for the flow of information to facilitate easy and foolproof calculation. This Technical
Report is a step towards fulfilling this need for a common international and multimodal standard or guideline i.e. for
declaration and reporting of environmental performance in goods transport.
This Technical Report is targeted at the information exchange in and between companies, as well as from
companies to authorities. It should therefore be used for delivering transport data e.g. for green accounting,
environmental declarations, certification (EMAS, ISO 14000), LCA (Life Cycle Analysis), KPI (Key Performance
Indicators), environmental benchmarking, environmental labelling etc. that will become management activities in
companies in the coming years.
This Technical Report specifies the content and structure of a declaration of environmental performance in freight
transport. The principles may be applied for documentation of environmental performance of any mode or relevant
combination of transport modes in a goods transport chain.
This Technical Report is a guideline for the presentation of data and source of data used for calculating
environmental performance, but does not specify which models or methods that should be used.
To make it easier to analyse environmental performance of goods transport in the future, further development of
standardised models and methods for simulation of emission should be made. Annex A and B (informative) are
examples of how this Technical Report can be used.
This document is not an interpretation guideline of the ISO 14001 standard but is compatible with existing
standards defining requirements for environmental management systems. The recommendations described can be
used whether within environmental management systems, or independently.
1 Scope
This Technical Report is a guideline for preparing environmental declarations and reporting. The guideline
recommends the content and structure for documentation and evaluation of environmental performance in freight
transportation. The guideline is applicable to freight transport purchasers and freight transport operators. Reliability
and trustworthiness are essential to the use and acceptance of eco reporting. When specific data is not available it
is therefore paramount to use commonly acknowledged data.
The calculations and results should be presented in a transparent and true way that aids the evaluation of the
environmental performance of a given freight transport. As a rule of thumb, it can be said that when the method,
used for calculating the energy consumption and emissions for one customer, is extended to all the costumers of a
transport company, then all transport related energy consumption and emissions from that transport company
should be accounted for.
2 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this Technical Report, the following terms and definitions apply:
2.1
freight transport
transport of goods on road, railway, sea and inland navigation
2.2
transport chains
movement of a given consignment of goods/products from the time the goods are made available by the shipper,
until they are delivered as instructed
2.3
transport system
transport on road, railway, sea and inland navigation including all necessary actions by the participating parties to
the continued function of the transport system
2.4
goods
the shipped items including the packaging received by the recipient, excluding packaging and transport material
forming part of a common pool, e.g. EUR pallets, containers, swap bodies and tara weight of the vehicle
3 Content and structure
3.1 General recommendations
Information and declaration of energy consumption and of exhaust emissions should include the following as a
minimum:
a) Transport profile
— clear and unambiguous identification of the transport (e.g. period, assignment, customer covered by the
declaration);
— weight/dimension/number of goods (e.g. l, kg, t, m, m );
— identification of the transport (from A to B), and the modes involved (road, sea, rail).
b) Basic transport data, per mode
— transport distance (km);
— transport work (e.g. t/km).
c) Calculated transport data, per mode
— use of energy (e.g. l, t, kg, MJ or kWh);
— emissions, CO , NOx, SO , HC, CO, PM (g or kg).
2 2
d) Documentation of calculation method and data used
— data source and system boundaries for the use of fuel or energy (e.g. reference to own registered system,
commonly known simulation models or key figures);
— the specific data, on which the calculations are based;
— if general or average data is used, description of calculation method and data origin (e.g. business average,
adjusted country average, company or trade model).
e) Issuer responsible for the declaration
— clear and unambiguous identification of the company, or the person, responsible.
3.2 Information on road transport
Apart from the information to be given according to 3.1, the road transport declaration shou
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