SIST EN 45555:2020

General methods for assessing the recyclability and recoverability of energy related products

This European standard (EN) provides a general methodology for:
- Assessing the recyclability of energy related products
- Assessing the recoverability of energy related products
- Assessing the ability to access or remove certain components or assemblies from energy related products to facilitate their potential for recycling or other recovery operations.
- Assessing the recyclability of critical raw materials from energy related products.
This EN will elaborate on recyclability and recoverability in a horizontal, cross-product way. However, a correct assessment can only be done in a product-specific way, taking into account specific parameters of a specific product group. This standard will define a series of parameters which may be considered to calculate product specific recycling and recoverability rates.

Allgemeines Verfahren zur Bewertung der Rezyklierbarkeit und Wiederverwertbarkeit energieverbrauchsrelevanter Produkte

Dieses Dokument bietet eine allgemeines Verfahrenfür:
 die Bewertung der Recyclingfähigkeit von energieverbrauchsrelevanten Produkten;
 die Bewertung der Wiederverwertbarkeit von energieverbrauchsrelevanten Produkten;
 die Bewertung der Fähigkeit, auf gewisse Komponenten, Baugruppen, Materialien oder Substanzen aus Produkten zuzugreifen oder diese zu entnehmen, um ihre Entnahme am Ende der Nutzungsdauer für Behandlung, Recycling- und sonstige Wiederverwertungsverfahren zu vereinfachen;
 die Bewertung der Recyclingfähigkeit kritischer Rohstoffe aus energieverbrauchsrelevanten Produkten.
Dieses Dokument definiert allgemeine Verfahren und Parameter, die für die Entwicklung von produkt-spezifischen Normen zur Berechnung produktspezifischer Recyclingfähigkeits- und Wiederverwert-barkeitsraten gelten. Dieses Dokument kann nicht direkt auf eine Produktgruppe angewendet werden, da eine korrekte Bewertung nur produktspezifisch erfolgen kann. Dieses Dokument definiert eine Reihe von Parametern, die für die Berechnung von produktspezifischen Recyclingfähigkeits- und Wiederverwertbar-keitsindizes berücksichtigt werden können.

Méthodes générales pour l’évaluation de la recyclabilité et de la valorisabilité des produits liés à l’énergie

Le présent document fournit une méthodologie générale pour :
 l’évaluation de la recyclabilité des produits liés à l’énergie ;
 l’évaluation de la valorisabilité des produits liés à l’énergie ;
 l’évaluation de la capacité à accéder à ou à extraire certains composants, assemblages, matériaux ou substances des produits afin de faciliter leur extraction en fin de vie pour un traitement, un recyclage et d’autres opérations de valorisation simplifiés ;
 l’évaluation de la recyclabilité des matières premières critiques provenant de produits liés à l’énergie.
Le présent document définit des méthodes et paramètres génériques applicables pour le développement de normes spécifiques à un produit afin de calculer les taux de recyclabilité et de valorisabilité spécifiques à un produit. Le présent document ne peut pas être directement appliqué à un groupe de produits, car une évaluation correcte ne peut être effectuée que d'une manière spécifique au produit. Le présent document définit une série de paramètres pouvant être pris en considération pour calculer des indices de recyclabilité et de valorisabilité spécifiques à un produit.

Splošne metode za ocenjevanje možnosti za recikliranje in predelavo proizvodov, povezanih z energijo

Ta evropski standard (EN) podaja splošno metodologijo za:
– ocenjevanje možnosti za recikliranje proizvodov, povezanih z energijo;
– ocenjevanje možnosti za predelavo proizvodov, povezanih z energijo;
– ocenjevanje možnosti za dostop ali odstranjevanje določenih komponent ali sestavov iz proizvodov, povezanih z energijo, kar poveča možnosti za njihovo recikliranje ali ostale postopke predelave;
– ocenjevanje možnosti za recikliranje kritičnih surovin iz proizvodov, povezanih z energijo.
Ta evropski standard dopolnjuje možnosti za recikliranje ter predelavo vzporedno in navzkrižno med proizvodi. Vendar pa je točna ocena mogoča le na način za posamezne proizvode ob upoštevanju določenih parametrov posamezne skupine proizvodov. Ta standard določa vrsto parametrov, ki jih lahko upoštevate pri izračunu stopnje možnosti za recikliranje in predelavo, ki je specifična za določen proizvod.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 14-Nov-2018
• Publication Date: 07-Jan-2020
• ICS: 13.020.20 - Environmental economics. Sustainability
• Technical Committee: I11 - Imaginarni 11
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 06-Dec-2019
• Due Date: 10-Feb-2020
• Completion Date: 08-Jan-2020
• Directive: 2009/125/EC - Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-using products and amending Council Directive 92/42/EEC and Directives 96/57/EC and 2000/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
• Mandate: M/543 - [C(2015)9096] Standardisation request to the European standardisation organisations as regard ecodesign requirements on material efficiency aspects for energy-related products in support of the implementation of Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
• Ref Project: EN 45555:2019 - General methods for assessing the recyclability and recoverability of energy-related products

Standards Content (sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 45555:2020
01-februar-2020
Splošne metode za ocenjevanje možnosti za recikliranje in predelavo proizvodov,
povezanih z energijo

General methods for assessing the recyclability and recoverability of energy related

products

Allgemeines Verfahren zur Bewertung der Rezyklierbarkeit und Wiederverwertbarkeit

energieverbrauchsrelevanter Produkte

Méthodes générales pour l’évaluation de la recyclabilité et de la valorisabilité des

produits liés à l’énergie
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 45555:2019
ICS:
13.020.20 Okoljska ekonomija. Environmental economics.
Trajnostnost Sustainability
SIST EN 45555:2020 en,fr,de

2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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SIST EN 45555:2020
EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 45555
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
November 2019
ICS 13.020.20
English version
General methods for assessing the recyclability and
recoverability of energy-related products

Méthodes générales pour l'évaluation de la Allgemeines Verfahren zur Bewertung der

recyclabilité et de la récupérabilité des produits liés à Recyclingfähigkeit und Verwertbarkeit

l'énergie energieverbrauchsrelevanter Produkte
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 6 October 2019.

CEN and CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for

giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical

references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to

any CEN and CENELEC member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by

translation under the responsibility of a CEN and CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC

Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN and CENELEC members are the national standards bodies and national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium,

Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,

Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia,

Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre:
Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels

© 2019 CEN/CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means Ref. No. EN 45555:2019 E

reserved worldwide for CEN national Members and for
CENELEC Members.
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Contents Page

European foreword ....................................................................................................................................................... 3

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1 Scope .................................................................................................................................................................... 5

2 Normative references .................................................................................................................................... 5

3 Terms and definitions ................................................................................................................................... 5

3.1 Definitions ......................................................................................................................................................... 5

3.2 Abbreviations ................................................................................................................................................... 7

4 Overview and guidance ................................................................................................................................. 7

5 EoL treatment scenario ................................................................................................................................. 9

5.1 General considerations ................................................................................................................................. 9

5.2 Specification of the reference EoL treatment scenario .................................................................. 10

5.3 Representativeness of the reference EoL treatment scenario..................................................... 12

5.4 Data sources of the reference EoL treatment scenario .................................................................. 12

6 Design related criteria affecting recyclability and recoverability ............................................. 13

6.1 General considerations .............................................................................................................................. 13

6.2 CRM related design characteristics ....................................................................................................... 14

6.2.1 General considerations .............................................................................................................................. 14

6.2.2 Assessment method ..................................................................................................................................... 14

7 Assessment of the recyclability and recoverability of an ErP ...................................................... 14

7.1 General considerations for quantifying recyclability and recoverability ............................... 14

7.2 Material clustering and unspecified materials ................................................................................. 16

7.3 Detailed assessment of recyclability factor and recoverability factor ..................................... 16

7.4 Simplified assessment of recyclability factor and recoverability factor.................................. 17

8 Documenting the assessment of the recyclability and recoverability ...................................... 17

8.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 17

8.2 Elements of the assessment ...................................................................................................................... 17

8.3 Documentation .............................................................................................................................................. 18

Annex A (informative) Description of the workflow for the users of this document ....................... 19

Annex B (informative) Example of an EoL treatment scenario flow diagram for one material ... 21

Annex C (informative) Relationship with environmental impacts of recycling and recovery ...... 24

Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................................. 25

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European foreword

This document (EN 45555:2019) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/CLC/JTC 10 “Energy-

related products - Material Efficiency Aspects for Ecodesign”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an

identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by May 2020, and conflicting national standards shall be

withdrawn at the latest by May 2020.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of

patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

The dual logo CEN-CENELEC standardization deliverables, in the numerical range of 45550 – 45559,

have been developed under standardization request M/543 of the European Commission and are

intended to potentially apply to any product within the scope of the Directive 2009/125/EC concerning

energy-related products (ErP).

Topics covered in the above standardization request are linked to the following material efficiency

aspects:
a) Extending product lifetime;

b) Ability to reuse components or recycle materials from products at end-of-life;

c) Use of reused components/recycled materials in products.

These standards are general in nature and describe or define fundamental principles, concepts,

terminology or technical characteristics. They can be cited together with other product-specific, or

product-group standards e.g. developed by product technical committees.

This document is intended to be used by technical committees when producing horizontal, generic, or

product or product-group standards.

Attention is drawn to safety and other legislations relevant to ErP. Their purpose is to ensure that all

products intended for or likely to be used by consumers and other users under normal or reasonable

foreseeable conditions are safe.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the

following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,

Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,

Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of

North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the

United Kingdom.
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Introduction

To close the loop in a circular economy, amongst other measures, an efficient handling of waste is

paramount. Recovering materials and energy can reduce environmental impacts over the product

lifecycle, including reduced extraction of natural resources and associated emissions of primary

material production. To determine the recycling potential of an energy-related product (ErP) in terms

of how easy it is to recycle/recover materials from the product or to what degree a product can undergo

recycling/recovery, the concepts of recyclability and recoverability are introduced.

While recycling of ErPs aims at closing the circular economy loop, trade-offs might arise between

different material efficiency related topics. For instance mass of an ErP, durability, reparability,

reusability and energy efficiency, need to be balanced in order to improve the environmental benefit.

See also ISO Guide 64 [12]. Further explanation on the relationship with environmental impacts of

recycling and recovery, including environmental benefits, are displayed in the informative Annex C.

NOTE The Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC [9] provides the concept of waste hierarchy, which ranks

the waste management practices from highest to lowest priority as follows: prevention, preparing for reuse,

recycling, recovery and disposal.

Once an ErP has reached its end-of-life (EoL) and has become waste, the ErP can be either prepared for

reuse, recycled/recovered. This document elaborates on the product characteristics which are relevant

for recyclability and recoverability of an entire ErP. The focus is therefore on the

recyclability/recoverability of the product itself rather than the recycling or recovery processes. The

general method presented in this document takes into account the availability and efficiency of state-of-

the-art recycling and recovery processes to determine the recyclability/recoverability rate of an ErP.

Based on the reference EoL treatment scenario, it is assumed that the assessment of the

recyclability/recoverability of an ErP as a whole may be valid for a certain period of time in a given

geographical area.
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1 Scope
This document establishes general principles for:
— Assessing the recyclability of energy-related products;
— Assessing the recoverability of energy-related products.
This document also considers:

— The ability to access or remove certain components, assemblies, materials or substances from

products to facilitate their extraction at the end-of-life for ease of treatment, recycling and other

recovery operations;
— The recyclability of critical raw materials (CRMs).

This document defines parameters which are applicable for the development of product or product-

group standards in order to calculate recyclability/recoverability rates. This document serves as a

method for writing product or product-group standards, rather than being directly applied. Additional

information and requirements not provided in this document will be necessary for product or product-

group standards.

This document is not applicable to generate publicly available product information and compare

products in absence of product standards based on this document.

Although this document can be used for a product or product-group, for the sake of a better readability

only “product” is used throughout the rest of the document.
2 Normative references

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content

constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For

undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

EN 45558, General method to declare the use of critical raw materials in energy-related products

EN 45559:2019, Methods for providing information relating to material efficiency aspects of energy-

related products
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:

— IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at http://www.iso.org/obp

NOTE See FprCLC/TR 45550 for additional definitions related to material efficiency of ErP.

3.1.1
EoL
end-of-life

life cycle stage of a product starting when it is removed from its intended use stage

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Note 1 to entry: Within this standard, removal from its intended use phase includes when it has been discarded

as waste.

[SOURCE: IEV 904-01-17, modified with the addition of the Note 1 to entry and alignment of wording

M/543]
3.1.2
EoL treatment
end-of-life treatment
operation of any kind by which a product is recovered or disposed of
3.1.3
recovery

operation of any kind, the principal result of which is waste serving a useful purpose by replacing other

materials which would otherwise have been used to fulfil a particular function, or waste being prepared

to fulfil that function, in the plant or in the wider economy

Note 1 to entry: Annex II of the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) sets out a non-exhaustive list of

recovery operations.

[SOURCE: Directive 2008/98/EC, modified by moving the last sentence of definition to NOTE 1 to entry]

3.1.4
material recovery

recovery operation of any kind, other than energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are

to be used as fuels or other means to generate energy

Note 1 to entry: Material recovery includes, inter alia, preparing for reuse, recycling and backfilling.

[SOURCE: Directive 2008/98/EC, modified by moving the last sentence of definition to Note 1 to entry]

3.1.5
energy recovery

production of useful energy through direct and controlled combustion or other processing of waste

[SOURCE: IEV 904-04-03, modified by deletion of Note 1 to entry]
3.1.6
recycling

recovery operation of any kind, by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or

substances whether for the original or other purposes excluding energy recovery

Note 1 to entry: Recycling includes the reprocessing of organic material but does not include energy recovery

and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for backfilling operations.

[SOURCE: Directive 2008/98/EC, modified by moving the last sentence of definition to NOTE 1 to entry]

3.1.7
waste

substance or object of any kind, which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard

[SOURCE: Directive 2008/98/EC]
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3.1.8
disposal

operation of any kind, which is not recovery even where the operation has as a secondary consequence

the reclamation of substances or energy

Note 1 to entry: Annex I of the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) sets out a non-exhaustive list of

disposal operations.

[SOURCE: Directive 2008/98/EC, modified by deleting the last sentence of definition and adding

NOTE 1 to entry]
3.1.9
part
hardware, firmware or software constituent of a product

Note 1 to entry: Firmware and software are not relevant for the purpose of this document.

[SOURCE: EN 45554:- definition 3.2]
3.1.10
backfilling

recovery operation of any kind where suitable non-hazardous waste is used for purposes of reclamation

in excavated areas or for engineering purposes in landscaping

Note 1 to entry: Waste used for backfilling must substitute non-waste materials, be suitable for the

aforementioned purposes, and be limited to the amount strictly necessary to achieve those purposes.

[SOURCE: Directive (EU) 2018/851, modified by moving the last sentence of definition to NOTE 1 to

entry]
3.2 Abbreviations
The following abbreviations have been used in this document:
CRM critical raw material
EoL end-of-life
ErP energy-related products
4 Overview and guidance

For the assessment of the recyclability/recoverability of an ErP, it shall be assumed that the entire ErP

undergoes the respective reference EoL treatment scenario. It shall be assumed that no preparing for

reuse takes place in this assessment. The users of this document shall select one reference EoL

treatment scenarios. Comparison of recyclability/recoverability rates of different products of the same

type, shall only be carried out using the same reference EoL treatment scenario.

The ability of an ErP to be recycled and recovered depends upon the following factors:

— the design characteristics of the product such as its structure, material composition, size, mass;

Under preparation. Stage at time of publication: FprEN 45554
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— the techniques, combination or sequence of techniques used to recycle or recover a given waste

stream.

NOTE 1 The design characteristics of the product can facilitate selected recycling and recovery processes. This

could be done for example by marking certain parts, which are separated during the recovery process, in order to

make them easier to identify for removal. Easy removal of certain parts does not necessarily increase

recoverability if those parts are not removed in the reference EoL treatment scenario considered.

The recyclability/recoverability assessment of an ErP shall be based on the reference EoL treatment

scenario defined according to Clause 5 on a product basis.
The reference EoL treatment scenario shall be based on 5.3, taking into account:
— Product-related representativeness;
— Technological representativeness;
— Temporal representativeness;
— Geographical representativeness.

Based on technical constraints and legal requirements of the specified treatment, criteria at product

level shall be defined in order to assess the compatibility of the product with the specified treatment.

Clause 6 provides guidelines for selecting criteria that may be considered for a qualitative assessment

and that shall be considered in order to define recyclability/recoverability rates (see Clause 7).

See a detailed description of the workflow for the users of this document in Annex A.

NOTE 2 Criteria could, for example, include the ability to remove parts from a product due to treatment related

reasons or legal requirements.

EXAMPLE 1 Due to technical constraints of certain recycling methods, all the loaded plastic (whether

brominated flame retardants are present or not) have to be sorted in order to remove plastic containing

brominated flame retardants.

EXAMPLE 2 Due to legal requirements it has to be possible to remove toner cartridges, liquid, paste, and colour

toner from a product containing them as an identifiable stream or an identifiable part of a stream during the

treatment step.

Clause 8 describes requirements on the communication of the recyclability/recoverability assessment

result.

Figure 1 describes, in the form of a flow chart, the logic of this document and links between the different

parts.
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Figure 1 — Flowchart on assessing the recyclability/recoverability of an ErP
5 EoL treatment scenario
5.1 General considerations

An EoL treatment scenario is a description of the combination and sequence of processes and steps

required for the EoL treatment of a product. The assessment of a product's recyclability/recoverability

shall be based on only one representative EoL treatment scenario.

NOTE 1 The same reference EoL treatment scenario is applicable for the assessment of a product or its

constituent parts or materials.

Losses outside of the reference EoL treatment scenario, e.g. collection, storage, transport, preparing for

reuse or scavenging are not considered.
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When specifying the reference EoL treatment scenario, the following aspects shall be considered:

— applicable regulations;

— relevant industry practices and standards allowing efficient recycling and recovery;

— health, safety and environmental concerns;
— specific structure and material content of the product in scope.
The reference EoL treatment scenario can include operations such as:

— Mitigation of hazards and removal of parts for selective treatment, either when this is required (e.g.

regulations applicable to the recycling facility), or to allow a higher efficiency of subsequent EoL

treatment;

— Material recovery including material separation and recycling, which can be achieved through

several techniques, such as mechanical, chemical or thermal;
— Energy recovery;
— Disposal.

The users of this document shall describe where the reference EoL treatment scenario ends:

— for recycling, it is where waste material has been reprocessed into products, materials or

substances whether for the original or other purposes. This is the same point from which the

recycled material content can be determined;
— for recovery, it is where materials/energy are recovered.

NOTE 2 In the recyclability assessment any recovered material that does not become recycled content in new

materials, parts or products, does not count as recycled.
5.2 Specification of the reference EoL treatment scenario

The reference EoL treatment scenario shall be established. The recyclability/recoverability parameters

for parts/materials shall be derived from the established reference EoL treatment scenario. These

parameters are used in the assessment of the ErP (see 7.1).

For clarification purposes, a flow diagram of the selected reference EoL treatment scenario shall be

developed. A simplified example is shown in Figure 2. The flow diagram shall include all relevant

treatment steps of the reference EoL treatment scenario in sequential order and specify from the

starting point (waste product) all the outputs of each treatment step and their destination (e.g. material

recovered, landfilled or input to another process).

The material output shall indicate, as far as possible, the overall efficiency of the material recovery,

taking into account the losses at each treatment step. The treatment steps shall be considered as

described in the example in Annex B.
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Key
EoL treatment step material flow can include additional treatment steps
material output material flow
final output

Figure 2 — Simplified treatment steps of an example reference EoL treatment scenario

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The reference EoL treatment scenario shall be used to specify criteria affecting

recyclability/recoverability according to the guidance in Clause 6, and to calculate the parameters

required in the formulas in Clause 7. The efficiency values of treatment steps shall be used in the

calculation of the recyclability/recoverability factors of parts/materials (R and R ), and the

cyc,k cov,k
recyclability rate (R ) and recoverability rate (R ) of an ErP.
cyc cov
5.3 Representativeness of the reference EoL treatment scenario

EoL treatment depends on the technology used. This technology also differs by location, by the time the

assessment is done and by the product under assessment. To get comparable results and avoid an

unrealistic EoL treatment scenario, the representativeness of the reference EoL treatment scenario

shall be considered and described for each of the criteria in Table 1.

Table 1 — Representativeness criteria to determine the reference EoL treatment scenario

Criteria Guidelines

Product-related The reference EoL treatment scenario shall be appropriate for the product

representativeness studied, in particular when treatment technologies are product specific due to

applicable regulations, industry practices, collection flows (e.g. per individual

or collective producers’ responsibility schemes) and health, safety and
environmental aspects.

Technological State-of-the-art treatment technologies shall form the basis of the reference

representativeness EoL treatment scenario for each treatment step. Treatment processes under

development can be considered and documented.
NOTE The reference EoL treatment scenario will include state-of-the-art
technologies, meaning that the latest, most up-to-date methods for each
technology are included, provided that they are already used by the industry,
and economically viable in a current business setting.

Temporal The reference EoL treatment scenario shall be defined to be influenced as little

representativeness as possible by short-term fluctuations of the waste composition and recycling

strategies that do not reflect fundamental changes in the
recyclability/recoverability of the product.

Geographical Data that is representative for the relevant geographical area (e.g. countries of

representativeness the EU) shall be used. The use of data generated by selecting operators

representing the best available technology out of a pool of operators
complying with the requirements of European treatment standards (e.g. in the
case of WEEE: EN 50625 series) may be considered as representative for
Europe.

For the recyclability/recoverability assessment, a reference EoL treatment scenario shall be established

for each product. A combination of different options resulting from the criteria and guidelines listed

above can result in an average scenario.
5.4 Data sources of the reference EoL treatment scenario

The most recent and appropriate data sources shall be used. Lack of data can hamper assessment of

recyclability/recoverability according to Clause 7.

Data from public sources (e.g. authority, industry, academia, etc.) may be used as input to determine the

reference EoL treatment scenario for a specified product.

NOTE See JRC report “Feasibility study for setting-up reference values to support the calculation of

recyclability/recoverability rates of electr(on)ic products” [15].
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The reference EoL treatment scenario, including material-specific efficiencies of the treatment steps,

shall established based on data from applicable EoL treatments and be complemented by information

from manufacturers and recyclers [13].
EXAMPLE Sources of data to define the reference EoL treatment scenario include:

— Data on recovery and recycling rates of different waste categories, stated with reporting tools

commonly used within the corresponding industry (e.g.: WF-RepTool for WEEE, https://www.wf-

reptool.org/);

— Treatment standards applicable to the category of product (e.g.: EN 50625 standards on WEEE

management);
— Case studies described in the scientific literature;

— Databases of reference values, if developed, provided by national or European authorities;

— Parameters produced by treatment process modelling with simulation tools.
6 Design related criteria affecting recyclability and recoverability
6.1 General considerations

The following guidelines shall be considered by the users of this document for establishing criteria at

product level in relationship to the reference EoL treatment scenario, taking into account the specific

characteristics of the assessed product.
Depollution and selective treatment of certain parts/materials at EoL are prereq
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