Depending on the needs and objectives of the interested parties, the ISO 14034 ETV scheme can be implemented as a market tool or serve as a basis for establishing a programme to address e.g. policy objectives or specific environmental challenges.
4 key models of ISO 14034 ETV implementation
Market driven
scheme
without
programme
Policy driven/
challenge led
programme
Hybrid:
policy/market
driven
programme
Private
scheme/
programme
- Depends heavily on marked demand for third-party performance verification
- This demand can be driven by policy or regulatory requirements concerning performance of specific types of technologies e.g. performance related to carbon removal or environmental performance of activities / business operations e.g. in relation to ESG reporting
- Focused to address a specific challenge that can result e.g. from an environmental problem which cannot be resolved in a conventional way or where conventional solutions are not efficient enough and innovation is needed
- This demand can be driven by policy or regulatory requirements concerning performance of specific types of technologies or environmental performance of activities
- The challenge based model is an effective way to engage technology providers and developers (private sector, SMEs, R&I) in innovation development and deployment which incorporates third-party technology performance verification provided by ISO 14034 ETV scheme
- This model can be also utilised for public procurement of innovation
- Involves the use of ISO 14034 ETV as a tool supporting implementation of EU / national or regional level policies e.g. circular economy by helping bring to the market new technologies which performance contributes to reaching the targets or objectives set up in these policies
- Typically such programme is operated by a public entity e.g. a ministry responsible for environment, technologies, innovation or an environmental agency or other designated organisation (e.g. an institute or agenda of a ministry)
- The operator may include additional requirements beyond ISO 14034 ETV concerning for example programme organisation, accreditation of verification bodies, technologies addressed, testing requirements and minimum performance values, etc
- The market demand is mainly driven by a policy or regulatory requirements
- ISO 14034 ETV may be successfully used as scheme or programme operated by a branch organisation or association of industries or by an organisation who leads the value chain or supply network to weed out suppliers whose products or services for industrial applications do not meet performance criteria relevant for the overall environmental performance of the value chain.
- ETV can be also incorporated into procurement practices of e.g. ISO 14000 or EMAS certified organisations with environmental ambitions as one of the means to demonstrate compliance of the purchased technical solutions or products the with the environmental targets set up by the companies