SVENSK STANDARD SS-EN ISO 14031:2021 Miljöledning – Utvärdering av miljöprestanda – Vägledning (ISO 14031:2021)
Environmental management – Environmental performance evaluation – Guidelines (ISO 14031:2021)
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Europastandarden EN ISO 14031:2021 gäller som svensk standard. Detta dokument innehåller den officiella engelska versionen av EN ISO 14031:2021.
Denna standard ersätter SS-EN ISO 14031:2013, utgåva 2
The European Standard EN ISO 14031:2021 has the status of a Swedish Standard. This document contains the official version of EN ISO 14031:2021.
This standard supersedes the SS-EN ISO 14031:2013, edition 2 This preview is downloaded from www.sis.se. Buy the entire standard via https://www.sis.se/std-80028747
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EUROPÄISCHE NORM April 2021
ICS 13.020.10 Supersedes EN ISO 14031:2013
English Version Environmental management - Environmental performance evaluation - Guidelines (ISO 14031:2021)
Management environnemental - Évaluation de la performance environnementale - - Leitlinien (ISO 14031:2021) Lignes directrices (ISO 14031:2021) Umweltmanagement - Umweltleistungsbewertung
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Contents Page
Foreword...... vii European foreword...... viii Introduction...... ix 1 Scope...... 1 2 Normative references...... 1 3 Terms and definitions...... 1 3.1 Terms related to organization and leadership...... 1 3.2 Terms related to planning...... 2 3.3 Terms related to support and operation...... 4 3.4 Terms related to performance evaluation and improvement...... 5 3.5 Terms relating to product system...... 8 3.6 Terms relating to life cycle assessment...... 8 4 Environmental performance evaluation...... 9 ...... 9 4.1.1 EPE process...... 9 4.1 4.1.2General overviewIndicators for EPE...... 10 4.1.3 EPE principles...... 12 4.2 Planning EPE (Plan)...... 13 4.2.1 General guidance...... 13 4.2.2 Characteristics of EPE indicators...... 13 4.3 Using data and information (Do)...... 22 ...... 22 4.3.2 Collecting data...... 23 4.3.14.3.3 OverviewAnalysing and converting data...... 24 ...... 24 4.3.5 Reporting and communicating...... 25 4.3.4 Evaluating information (Review)...... 26 Annex A (informative) Supplemental guidance on EPE...... 28 4.4 Reviewing and improving EPE (Act) Bibliography...... 43
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Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodiescommittee (ISO hasmember been bodies).established The haswork the of rightpreparing to be International represented Standardson that committee. is normally International carried out through ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical
organizations,electrotechnical governmental standardization. and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance are
described in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1. In particular, .isothe differentdirectives approval). criteria needed for the different types of ISO documents should be noted. This document was drafted in accordance with the editorial rules of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2 (see www .org/ patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Details of Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of on the ISO list of patent declarations received (see .iso patents). any patent rights identified during the development of the document will be in the Introduction and/or Any trade name used in this document is informationwww given.org/ for the convenience of users and does not constitute an endorsement.
ForWorld an Trade explanation Organization of the (WTO) voluntary principles nature in the of standards,Technical Barriers the meaning to Trade of (TBT), ISO specific see terms.iso and expressions related.html. to conformity assessment, as well as information about ISO's adherence to the www .org/ iso/foreword Environmental management, Subcommittee SC 4, Environmental performance evaluation This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 207, Environmental management, , in collaboration with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee CEN/SS S26, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement). This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition (ISO 14031:2013), of which it constitutes a minor— revision.terminological The changes entries compared have been to added the previous and updated edition from are ISOas follows: 14001 and ISO 14050; — terms such as “condition of the environment” have been revised to “environmental condition” in
— accordancethe references with have ISO been 14001; updated. Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found at .iso members.html.
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European foreword
This document (EN ISO 14031:2021) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 207 "Environmental management" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/SS S26 “Environmental management”This European the Standard secretariat shall of be which given is theheld status by CCMC. of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by October 2021, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by October 2021. patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of This document supersedes EN ISO 14031:2013. According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Ireland,United Kingdom. Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the Endorsement notice
The text of ISO 14031:2021 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 14031:2021 without any modification.
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Introduction
performance. This can be achieved by effectively managing those elements of their activities, products Many organizations are seeking ways to understand, demonstrate and improve their environmental
and services that can significantly impact the environment. organizations to measure, evaluate and communicate their environmental performance using key This document sets out a process called environmental performance evaluation (EPE) which enables
performanceEPE is equally indicators applicable (KPIs), to small based and on large reliable enterprises and verifiable and may information. be used to support an environmental assess its environmental performance against its environmental policy, objectives, targets and other managementenvironmental system performance (EMS) objectives. or used independently. An organization with an EMS in place should Data and information generated by EPE can be used by an organization to implement other
in the ISO 14000 family of standards such as: environmental management tools and techniques in a coherent, transparent and cost-effective way, e.g. — EMS (see ISO 14001 and guidance in ISO 14004, ISO 14005 and ISO 14006); — environmental declarations (see ISO 14025); — environmental labelling (see ISO 14024); — life cycle assessment (LCA) (see ISO 14040 and ISO 14044). This document may also be used independently. EPE and environmental audits are complementary tools that can be used to assess environmental performance and identify areas for improvement. The key aspects, and differences, of these tools are: — EPE is an ongoing process of collection and assessment of data and information to provide a current
— evaluationenvironmental of performance, audits may beas usedwell asto performancegather such data trends and over information, time; either as part of EPE or as
part of an EMS, to verify whether objectives and targets are being met; — EMS is provided audits in are ISO conducted 19011. periodically to verify conformity with specifications and compliance with legal and other requirements. Guidance on auditing management system standards (MSS)
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Environmental management — Environmental performance evaluation — Guidelines
1 Scope This document gives guidelines for the design and use of environmental performance evaluation
complexity. (EPE) within an organization. It is applicable to all organizations, regardless of type, size, location and This document does not establish environmental performance levels. It is not intended for use for the establishment of any other environmental management system (EMS) conformity requirements.
Thecontinual guidance improvement, in this document among canothers. be used to support an organization’s own approach to EPE including its commitments to compliance with legal and other requirements, the prevention of pollution and
NOTEorganization’s This activities, document there is a genericis often standard a need to andalso does go to not other include sources guidance for additional on specific information methods forand valuing guidance or weighting different kinds of impacts in different kinds of sectors, disciplines, etc. Depending on the nature of the
on sector-specific topics, different subject matters or different scientific disciplines. 2 Normative references There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply. ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization.iso obp at the following addresses: — IECISO Electropedia:Online browsing available platform: at available at.electropedia ht t ps://www .org/
3.1 Terms related to organizationht t p:// wwwand leadership .org/ 3.1.1 management system set of interrelated or interacting elements of an organization (3.1.4) to establish policies and objectives (3.2.5) and processes (3.3.2) to achieve those objectives
Note 1 to entry: A management system can address a single discipline or several disciplines (e.g. quality, environment (3.2.1
Note 2 to entry: The), occupational system elements health include and safety, the organization’s energy, financial structure, management). roles and responsibilities, planning and operation, performance evaluation and improvement.
functions (3.3.3 Notefunctions 3 to across entry: aThe group scope of organizations. of a management system can include the whole of the organization, specific and identified ) of the organization, specific and identified sections of the organization, or one or more [SOURCE: ISO 14001:2015, 3.1.1]
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