Advancing on comparability aspects for Product and Organisation Environmental Footprint

The Environmental Footprint (EF), with its Product and Organisation Environmental Footprint (PEF and OEF), is the method adopted by the European Commission to assess the environmental impacts of products, services, and organisations throughout their life cycle. Granting comparability of EF results is a key objective, in particular thanks to the definition of PEF category rules (PEFCRs) and OEF sector rules (OEFSRs). However, as following the experiences during the EF pilot phase (2014-2018), several issues relating to comparability call for more detailed guidance. Building on the existing Recommendation (EU) 2021/2279, we analysed further on: how to compare environmental impacts of organisations; how to compare environmental impacts of intermediate products; and how best define granularity of PEFCRs and OEFSRs. Each of these topics is discussed in a separate chapter of the report.