23.5.2022
A.2.3.
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
L 144/309
Definition of the representative organisation(s) The Technical Secretariat shall develop a ‘model‘ of the representative organisation (RO) present on the EU market and belonging to the sector.
The RO shall reflect the current situation, at the time of developing the OEFSR.
This means, for example, that future technologies, future transport scenarios or future end of life treatments shall be excluded.
The data used shall reflect realistic market averages and be most recent (especially for fast developing technology products).
Conservative values or estimates shall be avoided.
The RO may be a real or a virtual (non-existing) organisation.
The virtual organisation should be calculated based on average European market sales-weighted characteristics of all existing technologies/production process/organisation types covered by the sector or sub-sector.
Other weighting sets may be used, if justified..
When identifying the RO there is the risk that different technologies with very different market shares get mixed up and the ones with a relatively small market share might be overlooked.
In such cases the Technical Secretariat shall include the missing technologies/production routes/ organisation types (if in scope) in the definition of the RO or provide written justification if this is not technically possible.
The RO is the basis for the OEF study of the representative organisation (OEF-RO).
Section A.3.1 explains for when a RO shall be developed for sectors and subsectors.
The technical secretariat shall provide information about all the steps taken to define the ‘model’ of the RO and report the information gathered in an Annex to the OEFSR.
The Technical Secretariat take the most appropriate measures to preserve the confidentiality of data, if applicable.
A.2.4.
First OEF study of the representative organisation(s) A first OEF study shall be carried out on each representative organisation (first OEF-RO).
The first OEF-RO aims at: 1.
Identifying the most-relevant impact categories; 2.
Identifying the most-relevant life-cycle stages, processes and elementary flows; 3.
Identifying data needs, data collection activities and data quality requirements.
The Technical Secretariat carries out the first OEF-RO on the ‘model‘ of the RO(s).
Lack of available data and low market shares shall not be an argument for exclusions of technologies or production processes.
The Technical Secretariat shall use EF compliant datasets for the OEF-RO, if available.
If an EF compliant dataset does not exist, the following procedure shall be followed in hierarchical order: 1.
If an EF compliant proxy can be found it shall be used; 2.
If an ILCD-EL compliant dataset as proxy can be found: it shall be used but shall not be included in the list of default datasets of the first draft OEFSR.
The proxy shall be listed in the limitations of the first draft OEFSR with the following text: ‘This dataset is used as a proxy during the first OEF-RO only.
However, the company performing the supporting study to test the first draft OEFSR shall apply an EF compliant dataset, if available (following the rules laid out in Section A.4.4.2 on which datasets to use).
If this is not available, the company shall use the same proxy as used for calculating the first OEF-RO‘ 3.
If no EF compliant or ILCD- EL compliant dataset can be found, another dataset may be used.
In the first OEF-RO no cut-off of processes, emissions to the environment and resources from the environment is allowed.
All the life-cycle stages and processes shall be covered (including capital goods).
However, activities like staff commuting, canteens at production sites, consumables not strictly related to production processes, marketing, business trips and R&D activities may be excluded.
Cut-offs may only be included in the final OEFSR based on the rules included in the Annex III and this Annex.