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The Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) for Hotel accommodation services

What is the PEF?

The PEF is a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method for quantifying the overall environmental impacts of products (goods or services) in the EU. The PEF is helping companies to calculate the environmental performance of their products based on specific, reliable, and verifiable information, for combatting greenwashing, for enabling fair and performance-based green claims. To reach this goal, a set of specific rules needs to be defined for the respective product category, in the form of a PEFCR (Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules). PEFCR are already available for more than 20 product categories, 4 more are currently under development, and the Hotel accommodation PEFCR is the latest development initiated. They will be developed in the time period from 2024 to 2026.

Benefits of the PEF

There are many different labels and certificates used in the hotel industry. The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) is a sound and recognised calculation method which offers a science-based, standardised framework to help the entire industry find common ground when determining and talking about environmental impacts.

Compliance

The PEF method helps companies position themselves in the context of legislative initiatives as the Green Claims Directive.

Harmonisation

The PEF method increases consistency and comparability in the industry.

Credibility

The PEF method is science-based, standardised framework.

Transparency

The PEF results can be used to inform consumers and customers about the environmental performance of your service.

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The process

The PEF Category Rules (PEFCR) will be developed in the time period from 2024 to 2026. Public stakeholder engagement is critical for a robust PEFCR development process. Within the development process, there are two public consultations. Stakeholders, suppliers, civil society, policymakers, and institutions are invited to comment on the PEFCR to ensure the credibility and transparency of the process.

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