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GEC is undertaking a multi-year initiative to update its EPEAT Criteria to align with priority
sustainability impacts of electronic products and their supply chains, to ensure the Criteria:

Address sustainability
impacts consistently
across productcategories

Address purchaser
demands for increased
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The priority sustainability impact areas include:

When complete, the updated Criteria will be applied across all EPEAT product categories, starting with Computers and Displays,
Imaging Equipment, Mobile Phones, Servers, and Televisions.

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GEC undertook extensive
stakeholder consultation
throughout 2022 in thedevelopment of theImplementation Plan

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GEC identified basic overarching principles to guide thedevelopment of the Implementation Plan:▪ Must meet requirements and principles of ISO 14024

Overarching Principles:▪ Must be fair, impartial, and transparent▪ Cannot provide preference to a single product category or product type,or to a single or group of Participating Manufacturers▪ Must enable consistent and objective implementation▪ Must be easily understood by all stakeholders

Credibility
Consistency
Objectivity
Transparency
Leadership▪ If possible, find a way to recognize early adoption without penalizingothers©2023 Green Electronics Council. All rights reserved.

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The final Implementation Schedule below will guide the transition to the updated EPEAT Criteria©2023 Green Electronics Council. All rights reserved.

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Goals of Climate Change Mitigation Early Adopter Status▪ Position EPEAT as the global market leading ecolabel by early release ofclimate change mitigation criteria.
▪ Respond to the priority that national and international bodies, including
the current US Federal Government Administration, have placed onclimate change mitigation.
▪ Meet critical stakeholder and purchaser demands for EPEAT-registeredproducts that have further reduced climate change impacts.
▪ Provide incentives for, and EPEAT Registry recognition to, brands that arefirst movers.

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9▪ To achieve Early Adopter Status, a product must meetall Required Climate Change Mitigation Criteria andbe verified by a Conformity Assurance Body as having
done so (in addition to meeting all current RequiredCriteria).

▪ Early Adopter Status will not affect a product’s tierlevel of Bronze, Silver, or Gold:▪ Early Adopter Status can be achieved only by
individual products (and not on a per manufacturerbasis).

▪ Products keep the Early Adopter Status until they
are no longer active in Registry.

▪ Early Adopter Status will be in addition to Tierlevel.

▪ Participating Manufacturers are not required toobtain Early Adopter Status.

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11▪ The EPEAT Program will develop Conformity Requirements and Guidance Materials for each criterion,
approximately within two months of publication of the criteria for each sustainability impact module.
▪ The actual schedule may differ based on number/complexity of criteria.
▪ Conformity Requirements and Guidance Materials will include information such as:▪ Comparison of old and new Criteria;▪ Examples;▪ Previous questions and answers;▪ Additional information not specifically identified in Verification Requirements.
▪ The EPEAT Program will also develop template(s) for supplier letters / declarations that meet the requirements ofISO 14024 and ISO/IEC 17050.

▪ Resources will be available on the back-end of the EPEAT Registry.

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12▪ An on-demand training for CAB Auditors and Participating Manufacturers will be available approximately two anda half months after publication of the criteria for each module.
▪ CAB Auditors must pass training and exams for each module to be qualified to perform Documentation Reviewand Continuous Monitoring activities.

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13▪ Auditors must complete the Auditor training and achieve 75% or higher on the corresponding exam to complete
Documentation Review.
▪ CABs can help Participating Manufacturers with questions as soon as criteria are published, before completingtraining.

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14▪ This plan was developed to balance the needs of all stakeholders.
▪ The EPEAT Program will follow up on inconclusive Level 0 investigations to ensure information is available. If
publicly available information cannot be found, Level 1 investigations will be initiated.
2023

2024

2025

Product testing Round (Level 2) toexisting criteria. Round will launch
in Q1

Product testing Round (Level 2) toexisting criteria. Round will launch
in Q1

Product testing Round (Level 2) toupdated criteria. Round will launchlater in 2025

Round(s) assessing publicly
available information (Level 0) toexisting criteria

Round(s) assessing publicly
available information (Level 0) toexisting criteria

Round(s) assessing publicly
available information (Level 0) to
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Question-and-Answer Document▪ Will develop and publish a Question-and-Answer document available to Participating Manufacturers and CABs.

▪ Will be updated at the same time each week to identify newly answered questions that have arisen.
CAB Calibration Meetings▪ Will continue to hold monthly CAB Calibration Meetings with all CABs to review questions that arise duringconformity assurance activities.
Conformity Guidance Group Meetings▪ Monthly Conformity Guidance Group meetings have been scheduled for the remainder of 2023.
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Background▪ Except for consumables, product energy efficiency, and some criteria with small differences in language and/orrequirements for different product types, criteria will be identical across the Computers and Displays, Imaging
Equipment, Mobile Phones, Servers, and Televisions product categories.
▪ Product registration and product listings on the EPEAT Registry will remain by product category.
▪ Participating Manufacturers may choose to use different CABs for different categories.
▪ Corporation level criteria are criteria where evidence is required to cover all these product categories which themanufacturer has EPEAT-registered products.
▪ Needed to identify process for “corporation level criteria” for Participating Manufacturers that use different CABsfor different product categories.

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Process▪ If a Participating Manufacturer uses different CABs for different product categories, they may choose one of thefollowing options:1) Participating Manufacturer selects a single CAB which will complete Documentation Review of allcorporation level criteria. All Continuous Monitoring investigations for the corporation level criteria will beimplemented by this CAB.
2) Participating Manufacturer has both CABs complete Documentation Review of the corporation levelcriteria. Continuous Monitoring investigations will be implemented on a product category basis by the CAB
for the product category.

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