VERIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES UNDER
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VERIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES UNDER EU ETV PROGRAMME Background Urgent environmental challenges such climate change, the unsustainable use of resources, and the loss of biodiversity requires government, industry and citizens to take collective action within Europe and in the rest of the world. Environmental technologies can contribute by increasing resource efficiency, finding cleaner alternatives to current technology or introducing measures to mitigate or prevent the harmful effects of human activity on the environment. The benefits of environmental and eco-innovations are further enhanced by the policy win-win dimension of these technologies. For example, development, production and uptake of technology in Europe can positively contribute to competitiveness, economic growth and employment. In light of this substantial need for environmental technologies, Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is intended to facilitate greater environmental technology innovation and uptake by end users by providing independently validated and credible performance data. Why ETV? Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is a European Programme that provides for Third Party Verification, on a voluntary basis, of the performance of new environmental technologies. The objective of ETV is therefore to: increase the credibility of such technologies on the market enable technology users and purchasers to compare technologies and identify eco-innovations suited to their needs ensure wider recognition of verification results, both within the internal market and internationally. Verification under the EU ETV Pilot Programme is neither a pass or fail system nor a certification against a set of predefined criteria or standards giving e.g. a CE-marking. Instead, it is a dynamic process involving the proposer as much as the entities responsible for the verification tasks. Verification under ETV is concerned with the technical design of a technology, not with the production series of industrial products. ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY Marine Energy Business Assurance Transport & Infrastructures IFIs, Banks and Investors INNOVATION Who may apply? Candidate technologies for verification under the EU ETV Pilot Programme can be proposed by any legal entity or natural person established in or outside the European Union. The proposer can be a technology developer, manufacturer or its authorised representative. If the technology manufacturers concerned agree, the proposer can be another stakeholder undertaking a specific verification programme involving several technologies (e.g. as part of pre-procurement procedures). A candidate technology for verification under EU ETV Pilot Programme should be an innovative environmental technology ready for market uptake, whose performance characteristics are not fully covered by existing regulations/standards, and for which an independent verification of environmental performance will help building purchaser’s trust thus accelerating its market penetration. The EU ETV Pilot Programme is intended for use in a business-to business context. The following technological areas are applicable under ETV: Water treatment and monitoring (monitoring of water quality, treatment of drinking water and of waste water) Materials, waste and resources (separation and sorting of solid waste, recycling of materials, end-oflife products and chemicals, products made of biomass) Energy technologies (renewable sources of energy, energy from waste, energy efficiency technologies). The role of RINA RINA SERVICES is the entity responsible for the verification task. The verification of an environmental technology under ETV concludes with a complete verification report and a summary called the Statement of Verification. The Statement of Verification determines the final performance claim which can be considered verified under the EU ETV Pilot Programme. RINA is accredited as ETV ‘Verification Body’ (VB) in all the three technology areas. The accreditation is based on the ISO/IEC Standard 17020 for Inspection Bodies, and on the ETV General Verification Protocol. Stay tuned Visit www.etvexperience.org: Climate Change & Environment the blog about ETV maintained by RINA SERVICES, a free place to discuss about eco-innovation and how ETV can promote the technological environmental innovations. Laura Severino ph. +39 010 5385509 - mob. +39 335 7520223 laura.severino@rina.org Felice Alfieri ph. +39 010 5385730 - mob. +39 334 6808255 felice.alfieri@rina.org Via Corsica, 12 - 16128 Genova - Italy ph. +39 010 53851 - fax +39 010 5351000 info@rina.org WWW.RINA.ORG WWW.RINAGROUP.ORG RINA Corporate Image© RINA SERVICES S.p.A. is the RINA Group company active in classification, certification, inspection and testing services. RINA is a multi-national Group which offers verification, certification, conformity assessment, marine classification, environmental enhancement, product testing, site and vendor supervision, training and engineering consultancy across a wide range of industries and services. RINA operates through a network of companies covering Marine, Energy, Infrastructures & Construction, Transport & Logistics, Food & Agriculture, Environment & Sustainability, Finance & Public Institutions and Business Governance. With a turnover of over 330 million Euros in 2014, over 2,750 employees, and 163 offices in 60 countries worldwide, RINA is recognized as an authoritative member of key international organizations and an important contributor to the development of new legislative standards.
