Glass for Europe has responded to the consultation of the EU Commission on the potential policy application of Product and Organisation Environmental Footprint (PEF and OEF). While PEF is being developed by the EU as a useful instrument to evaluate and benchmark environmental impacts of final products in the EU, Glass for Europe stresses, alongside Construction Products Europe, that PEF' application to construction products would not be necessarily desirable nor useful. In the construction sector, the final product whose environmental performance can be best assessed is the building itself. Environmental performance assessment is of high importance. Members of Glass for Europe are already editing EU Product Declarations of their flat glass products following the rules set in the EU standard EN 15804.
