CEN/CLC Guide 33:2016

Guide for addressing environmental issues in testing standards CEN/CLC Guide 33:2016

Scope

This Guide gives guidance about environmental improvement of testing processes described in testing standards. The intention of this Guide is to reduce the environmental impact of testing by providing guidance on how to address environmental issues in testing standards.
This Guide is only applicable to the testing procedure. This Guide does not describe how sampling should be done. It should help to identify environmental impacts of sampling where it is necessary.
The following is excluded from the scope:
- the general operating conditions of laboratories unless specified as part of the test;
- the life cycle of testing equipment;
NOTE 1 Testing equipment is regarded as a product. For environmental issues of products see CEN Guide 4.
- testing that is part of the production process;
NOTE 2 Testing that is part of the production process (for example functional or quality testing) is already considered under CEN Guide 4.
- the environmental impact of test reports (e.g. use of paper, on which the report is written).
Environmental improvement of the product to be tested is not considered in this Guide but in CEN Guide 4.
Climate change considerations are not part of this document and are dealt with in the "CEN/CENELEC Guide for addressing climate change adaptation in standards".
Workers protection and Occupational health and safety conditions are out of scope of this Guide.