title: Aiding eco-labelling process and its implementation: Environmental Impact Assessment Methodology to define Product Category Rules for canned anchovies.
abstract: To be able to fulfil high market expectations for a number of practical applications, Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) have to meet and comply with specific and strict methodological prerequisites. These expectations include the possibility to add up Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)-based information in the supply chain and to compare different EPDs. To achieve this goal, common and harmonized calculation rules have to be established, the so-called Product Category Rules (PCRs), which set the overall LCA calculation rules to create EPDs. This document provides PCRs for the assessment of the environmental performance of canned anchovies in Cantabria Region based on an Environmental Sustainability Assessment (ESA) method. This method uses two main variables: the natural resources sustainability (NRS) and the environmental burdens sustainability (EBS). To reduce the complexity of ESA and facilitate the decision-making process, all variables are normalized and weighted to obtain two global dimensionless indexes: resource consumption (X1) and environmental burdens (X2). •This paper sets the PCRs adapted to the Cantabrian canned anchovies.•ESA method facilitates the product comparison and the decision-making process.•This paper stablishes all the steps that an EPD should include within the PCRs of Cantabrian canned anchovies.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ingenierías Química y Biomolecular, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s.n, 39005 Santander, Spain.
authors.forename: Jara
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Laso
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ingenierías Química y Biomolecular, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s.n, 39005 Santander, Spain.
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Margallo
authors.affiliation: UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change, Escola Superior de Comerç Internacional (ESCI-UPF), Pg. Pujades 1, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Pére
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fullana
authors.affiliation: UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change, Escola Superior de Comerç Internacional (ESCI-UPF), Pg. Pujades 1, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Alba
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bala
authors.affiliation: Lavola Cosostenibilidad Rbla, Catalunya, 6, 08007, Spain.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gazulla
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ingenierías Química y Biomolecular, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s.n, 39005 Santander, Spain.
authors.forename: Ángel
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Irabien
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ingenierías Química y Biomolecular, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s.n, 39005 Santander, Spain.
authors.forename: Rubén
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aldaco
keywords: Product Category Rules (PCR) of canned anchovy based on Environmental Sustainability Assessment (ESA) method; canning industry; environmental product declaration; life cycle assessment; product category rules