Predetermined environmental essential characteristics
ANNEX IISupplementary provisions
ANNEX II Predetermined environmental essential characteristics Harmonised technical specifications and European assessment documents shall cover the following list of predetermined environmental essential characteristics related to the life cycle assessment of a product: (a) climate change effects – total; (b) climate change effects – fossil fuels; (c) climate change effects – biogenic; (d) climate change effects – land use and land use change; (e) ozone depletion; (f) acidification potential; (g) eutrophication aquatic freshwater; (h) eutrophication aquatic marine; (i) eutrophication terrestrial; (j) photochemical ozone; (k) abiotic depletion – minerals, metals; (l) abiotic depletion – fossil fuels; (m) water use; (n) particulate matter; (o) ionising radiation, human health; (p) eco-toxicity, freshwater; (q) human toxicity, cancer; (r) human toxicity, non-cancer; (s) land use related impacts. Harmonised technical specifications shall also cover to the extent possible the predetermined environmental essential characteristic of capability to temporarily bind carbon and of other carbon removals.