Environmental Helpdesk (EHD) - The Environmental Framework

The CEN Environmental Helpdesk (CEN/EHD) provides information and support to CEN Technical Committees (TCs) and Working Groups when addressing environmental issues in European Standards.

The role of the CEN/EHD is to:

Develop environmental awareness among CEN technical bodies and encourage a systematic approach to integrate environmental aspects into standards.
Structure environmental information and provide supporting tools available for TCs.
Provide guidance to specific environmental projects within standardization.

In order to help deliver these objectives, the CEN/EHD has produced an Environmental Framework of tools and support services that are freely available to all CEN committe members.

The Environmental Framework includes the following items:

Environmental training including e-learning, one-day courses and tailored workshops
CEN Guide 4 and the Environmental Checklist - The reference tool for standards writers to include environmental aspects in their standards
Guidance and examples by sector - Consult here the most recent publications addressing various environmental aspects

Environmental Bulletin - The issue n°19 - December - January - February 2012-13 is now available

Guide to EU environmental policy and directives - Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy (SCP/SIP) Action Plan - LCA database - Ecolabel - Environmental Footprint and many others

Useful links - The CEN Environmental approach - EC Communication on the integration of environmental aspects in standards - Environmental standards from ISO and other standardization organisations

CEN brochure - Standardization and the Environment

Contact

CEN/EHD in the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre:
Avenue Marnix 17
B-1000 Brussels
E-mail

Ms Andrea Nam
Tel: + 32 2 550 09 68
Fax: + 32 2 550 08 19
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