UNE-EN 16760:2016

This European Standard provides specific life cycle assessment (LCA) requirements and guidance for bio-based products, excluding food, feed and energy, based on EN ISO 14040 Environmental management Life cycle assessment Principles and framework and EN ISO 14044 Environmental management Life cycle assessment Requirements and guidelines.

This European Standard covers bio-based products, derived wholly or partly from biomass.

This European Standard provides guidance and requirements to assess impact over the life cycle of bio-based products.

The applications of LCA as such are outside the scope of this European Standard. Clarifications, considerations, practices, simplifications and options for the different applications, are also beyond the scope of this European Standard.

In addition, this European Standard may be applied in studies that do not cover the whole life cycle, with justification e.g. in the case of business-to-business information, such as cradle-to-gate studies, gate-to-gate studies, and specific parts of the life cycle (e.g. waste management, components of a product).

For those studies most requirements of this European Standard are applicable (e.g. data quality, collection and calculation as well as allocation and critical review), but not all the requirements for the system boundary.