prEN 45553

General method for assessing the ability of a product to be remanufactured or refurbished prEN 45553

Scope

This document contains a general method to assess the ability of products to be remanufactured or to be refurbished. It is intended to be used by technical committees when producing horizontal, generic, and product, or product-group, standards.
NOTE 1 Throughout this document, reference to ‘user of this document’ refers to those members of technical committees that are producing horizontal, generic, and product, or product-group, standards as well as any person using the standard directly.
Assessing the ability of a part that is not considered to be a product to be remanufactured or refurbished is not considered in this document.
NOTE 2 To assess the ability of a product to be remanufactured or refurbished (i.e. in 5.2.1 to 5.2.5), the described criteria are applied to the parts of the product.