Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

This document specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving a circular economy management system that an organization can use to enhance its circularity performance. The document is intended for use by an organization seeking to integrate circular economy as a strategic priority. The circular economy management system will support the organization to use a systemic approach to contribute to the maintenance of a circular flow of resources in society by recovering, retaining or adding to their value, while contributing to sustainable development. The requirements set out in this document is generic and will provide value for the society, the environment, the organization itself and interested parties. The document will support an organisation to understand how its value network (e.g. suppliers and customers) will be affected by decisions taken by the organisation and give organizations within the value network a system of interconnected and interdependent decisions and activities. Consistent with the organization's policy for a circular economy, the expected results of a circular economy management system include: • enhancement of the circularity performance. • a system for compliance obligations. • a system for achievement of environmental, social, and economic objectives. • increased long-term value creation. This document is applicable to any organization seeking to understand and commit or contribute to a circular economy. These organizations can be either private or public, acting individually or collectively, regardless of type or size, and located in any jurisdiction, or position within a specific value chain or value network. This document can be used in whole or in part to systematically improve management towards circularity. Claims of conformity to this International Standard, however, are not acceptable unless all its requirements are incorporated into an organization's management system and fulfilled without exclusion.

ISO 59004 is a part of the ISO 59000 family of standards, specifically designed to foster a shift towards a circular economy. This standard provides comprehensive guidance applicable to any type of organization. It includes defining key terms and concepts, outlining a vision for a circular economy, elucidating core principles, and offering practical guidance for actionable steps towards sustainability. The standard aims to support organizations in contributing to the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development by facilitating a transition to a circular use of resources.

This document specifies requirements and provides guidelines for life cycle assessment. It coves life cycle assessment studies and life cycle inventory studies.

The ISO/IEC 20944 series of International Standards provides the bindings and their interoperability for metadata registries, such as those specified in the ISO/IEC 11179 series of International Standards. ISO/IEC 20944-5:2013 contains provisions that are common to the profiles, and the profiles themselves. A profile of ISO/IEC 11179-3:2003 is included, which maps ISO/IEC 11179 metadata attributes to standardized identifiers for navigation and access of ISO/IEC 11179 metadata.

This International Standard specifies requirements for self-declared environmental claims, including statements, symbols and graphics, regarding products. It further describes selected terms commonly used in environmental claims and gives qualifications for their use. This International Standard also describes a general evaluation and verification methodology for self-declared environmental claims and specific evaluation and verification methods for the selected claims in this International Standard. This International Standard does not preclude, override, or in any way change, legally required environmental information, claims or labelling, or any other applicable legal requirements.

This part of ISO/IEC 15459 specifies a unique string of characters for the identification of individual products and product packages. The character string is intended to be represented in a linear bar code symbol or two-dimensional symbol or other AIDC media attached to the entity to meet management needs. To address management needs different classes of identities are recognized in the various parts of ISO/IEC 15459, which allows different requirements to be met by the identities associated with each class.

This International Standard applies to automatic identification device communication conventions and standardizes the reporting of data carriers from bar code readers and other automatic identification equipment. It specifies a preamble message generated by the reader and interpretable by the receiving system, which indicates the bar code symbology or other origin of transmitted data, together with details of certain specified optional processing features associated with the data message.

This document specifies a general Internet of Things (IoT) Reference Architecture.