EPEAT Program Monthly Transparency Report
Participating Manufacturer Use of COVID Policy Modificationsin September 2022
Report Date: October 19, 2022

1.0Overview

The financial and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented in scale, and global innature. The Global Electronics Council (GEC) recognizes that since the pandemic began, businesses large
and small have faced a plethora of challenges ranging from staffing shortages and raw material
constraints, to diminished production capacity, and transportation logistics issues. Since April 2020, GEC
has been actively monitoring these and other COVID-related impacts to EPEAT Program activities andimplemented a series of temporary conformity assurance modifications to address them. As the impacts
to the EPEAT Program have evolved, so too, have GEC’s COVID-related conformity assurancemodifications.
To continue balancing the credibility of EPEAT with the reality of ongoing global impacts from thepandemic, in December 2021 GEC authorized the EPEAT Program to issue new temporary conformity
assurance modifications (which took effect on January 1, 2022), which was based on stakeholder
outreach and consultation in Q4 2021. GEC determined that the EPEAT Program must take action toaddress the following COVID-related impacts to program activities:•Participating Manufacturer delays in obtaining required verification-related documentation due
to service delays (laboratory testing backlogs and challenge and delays associated withcompletion of onsite audits).

•Participating Manufacturer use of components or suppliers that may not meet EPEAT Criteria
due to unprecedented supply chain bottlenecks, transportation logistics issues, and material
shortages.

•Reduction in EPEAT-registered product availability for EPEAT Purchasers.

The temporary conformity assurance modifications and associated policy changes to address theimpacts identified above are available in an updated version of the EPEAT Policy Manual (P65), EPEAT
Conformity Assurance Implementation Manual (P66), and a Frequently Asked Questions andImplementation Guidance (2022) companion document. These documents are available through either
the EPEAT Registry, an EPEAT Registry account under “Resources”, or upon request.

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About this Report

GEC publishes this EPEAT Program Monthly Transparency Report to enable all EPEAT Program
stakeholders to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact Participating
Manufacturers and to communicate how the temporary COVID-related conformity assurance
modifications are being used by Participating Manufacturers.
GEC-approved Conformity Assurance Bodies (CABs) are required to report specific details regarding their
Participating Manufacturer clients’ use of COVID policy modifications to EPEAT on a monthly basis. The

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EPEAT Program Monthly Transparency Report
Participating Manufacturer Use of COVID Policy Modifications in September 2022
Report date: October 19, 2022EPEAT Program then aggregates the data from CABs to produce this Monthly Transparency Report,
which provides insights regarding uptake of the temporary policy modifications.
This report reflects the use of COVID policy modifications by all active EPEAT Participating
Manufacturers from September 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022. The next monthly report will be
released in November 2022.

September 2022 Use of COVID Policy Modifications
The EPEAT Program’s temporary conformity assurance modifications are only applicable to specificconformity assurance challenges and limited to specific EPEAT Criteria identified by the EPEAT Program.
This report presents aggregated data on the use of COVID policy modifications among all active
Participating Manufacturers for the period from September 1 through September 30, 2022. Table 1
provides a summary of the number of Participating Manufacturers currently using each of thetemporary COVID policy modifications for this period.
Table 1: Use of COVID Policy Modifications for September 2022
COVID Modification

Number of Participating Manufacturers
Using Modification

Delay in onsite audit

0Force majeure attestation for components(limited to a 6-month period of use for each component)

0Force majeure attestation for suppliers(limited to a 6-month period of use for each supplier)0

TV product meets ENERGY STAR for Televisions Version 7.0(available until the effective date of ENERGY STAR for Televisions
Version 9.0)0

There was no change in the number of Participating Manufacturers using the temporary COVID
modifications from the previous reporting period.

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