Data set: ELCD conformity 1.0.1 (01.00.001)
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Name ELCD conformity 1.0.1 |
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Short name ELCD conformity 1.0.1 |
Citation European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment, European Commission – DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability (2006): European Reference Life Cycle Data System (ELCD) conformity system, Version 1.0.1 |
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Classification Compliance systems |
Publication type Other unpublished and grey literature |
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General comment The referenced file comprises the first release of the validity and conformity rules of the European Platform on LCA, v. 1.0.1. It provides the specifications of the requirements for sound documentation of LCA data sets with additional explanations for users.
The rules refer to the actual version of the ELCD format (Version 1.0.1). They will be further developed in 2007, together with stakeholders and in parallel to the finetuning of the ELCD format itself.
Note that applying the ELCD validity and ELCD conformity rules do not imply that the data meets a certain quality requirement or that the data set would be endorsed by the European Commission.
Please also refer to the license conditions of the ELCD format, accessible from http://lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu. Most but not all of these “ELCD validity” and “ELCD conformity” rules are also implemented in validity and conformity stylesheets,
that support and efficient automatic checking of individual data sets and whole databases for being valid and conform. “ELCD validity” refers to meeting the basic requirements of the ELCD data set format as well as providing the absolute
minimum information to have a useful data set following common sense and providing minimum information that it can be handled correctly by a software or database. E.g. that the data set is actually in ELCD-format, has a name, a format version number,
a date when it was generated, etc. “ELCD conformity” refers to further requirements being that type of information an LCA practitioner would usually like to have in order to judge the quality and appropriateness of a data set. |
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