EUROPEAN STANDARDEN50693NORME EUROPEENNEEUROPAISCHE NORMAugust 20191CS13.020.20:29.020English VersionProduct category rules for life cycle assessments of electronicand electrical products and systemsRegles de definition des categories de produits pourVerfahren zur quantitativen,umweltgerechtenI'analyse du cycle de vie des produits et systemesProduktgestaltung durch Okobilanzen undelectriques et electroniquesUmweltdeklarationen mittels Produktkategorieregeln furelektronische und elektrotechnische GerateThis European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2019-08-12.CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELECIntemal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alterationUp-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELECManagement Centre or to any CENELEC member.This European Standard exists in three official versions(English,French,German).A version in any other language made by translationunder the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has thesame status as the official versionsCENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria.Belgium,Bulgaria,Croatia,Cyprus.the Czech Republic,Denmark.Estonia,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Iceland,Ireland,Italy.Latvia.Lithuania.Luxembourg.Malta,theNetherlands,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Republic of North Macedonia,Romania,Serbia,Slovakia,Slovenia,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Turkey and the United Kingdom.CENELECEuropean Committee for Electrotechnical StandardizationComite Europeen de Normalisation ElectrotechniqueEuropaisches Komitee fur Elektrotechnische NormungCEN-CENELEC Management Centre:Rue de la Science 23,B-1040 Brussels2019 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.Ref.No.EN50693:2019EEN50693:2019(E)ContentsPageEuropean foreword…4Introduction....5162Normative references...................3Terms and definitions......64Product life cycle assessment...............124.1General..…4.2Product Category Rules..4.2.11Generalt134.2.2Functional unit and reference flow description.....134.2.3System boundary.....................154.2.4Life cycle inventory...174.2.5Allocation rules…4.2.6Units194.2.7 Data quality…194.3 Development of scenarios...........204.3.1General.204.3.2Transportation scenarios...........4.3.3Use scenarios....214.3.4End-of-life scenarios.........214.4 Life cycle impact assessment.........224.54.5.123234.5.2Scope of the study234.5.3 Life cycle inventory234.5.4Environmental impact assessment....................234.5.5Additional environmental information.....5Requirements for the development of PSR for EEPS......Annex A (normative)Additional Rules....26A.1 Rule(s)for extrapolation to a homogenous product family..............26A.2 Rules applying for the aggregation of environmental impacts on system level......................26Annex B(informative)Recommended impact categories.......B.1General.27B.2Additional environmental information........30Annex C(informative)Correlation with the Product Environmental Footprint(PEF)Initiative of2