ISO 14025:2026

ISO 14025:2026

June 2026
International standard Current

Environmental statements and programmes for products — Environmental product declarations (EPDs)

This document specifies principles and requirements and gives guidance on environmental product declaration (EPD) programmes and their associated EPDs. This document specifies the use of ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 on life cycle assessment (LCA) in the development of EPDs.This document is applicable to EPD programmes and their associated EPDs that are intended to address the potential environmental impacts and environmental aspects of products, and which can also include related social and economic aspects in support of sustainable development.NOTE 1        This document does not deal with social or economic LCA indicators.NOTE 2        Related social and economic aspects of the products can be reported as additional sustainability-related information, where relevant and available.This document provides requirements and guidance for the communication of the potential environmental impacts and environmental aspects of products to the intended audience of the EPD.This document does not apply to sector-specific provisions, which are dealt with in other ISO documents. It is intended that sector-specific provisions in other ISO documents related to EPDs are based on and use the principles, requirements and guidance of this document.

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Publication date

June 2026

Number of pages

43 p.

Reference

ISO 14025:2026

ICS Codes

13.020.50   Ecolabelling

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2
Sumary
Environmental statements and programmes for products — Environmental product declarations (EPDs)

This document specifies principles and requirements and gives guidance on environmental product declaration (EPD) programmes and their associated EPDs. This document specifies the use of ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 on life cycle assessment (LCA) in the development of EPDs.

This document is applicable to EPD programmes and their associated EPDs that are intended to address the potential environmental impacts and environmental aspects of products, and which can also include related social and economic aspects in support of sustainable development.

NOTE 1        This document does not deal with social or economic LCA indicators.

NOTE 2        Related social and economic aspects of the products can be reported as additional sustainability-related information, where relevant and available.

This document provides requirements and guidance for the communication of the potential environmental impacts and environmental aspects of products to the intended audience of the EPD.

This document does not apply to sector-specific provisions, which are dealt with in other ISO documents. It is intended that sector-specific provisions in other ISO documents related to EPDs are based on and use the principles, requirements and guidance of this document.

Replaced standards (1)
ISO 14025:2006
July 2006
International standard Current
Environmental labels and declarations - Type III environmental declarations - Principles and procedures

ISO 14025:2006 establishes the principles and specifies the procedures for developing Type III environmental declaration programmes and Type III environmental declarations. It specifically establishes the use of the ISO 14040 series of standards in the development of Type III environmental declaration programmes and Type III environmental declarations. ISO 14025:2006 establishes principles for the use of environmental information, in addition to those given in ISO 14020:2000 Type III environmental declarations as described in ISO 14025:2006 are primarily intended for use in business-to-business communication, but their use in business-to-consumer communication under certain conditions is not precluded.

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