The process
1. Get in touch with us
If you have one or more FDES or EPD tool to verify, reach out to us and provide the following information: the scope, type (individual, multi-reference, multi site, or multi-reference + multi-site), what kind of product is covered, how many FDES are to be verified and estimated timeline.
Once we have all this information, we will send you an offer.
2. Contract + NDA
This is a very important step: we never start any verification before the contract and NDA are signed. We provide the contract, you provide the NDA.
3. On the agreed date, you share documents to be verified
Once contract is signed, you will receive a link to a shared folder where you can upload all the necessary documents. This makes process easier: you don't need to resend documents if version changes, just upload it and we will get automatically notified.
Please check the list of necessary documents below.
4. Verification
Depending on the planning, verification starts either the following working day or on the date that will be communicated to you upon signing the contract.
It usually takes up to 5 working days (different for tools) until you receive your first evaluation with some questions to answer.
We do our best to conclude verification within 2 weeks.
Please note that if it takes more than 3 exchanges (i.e. clarifications form has to be filled in more than 3 times), documents will be deemed unverifiable and verification will conclude at that. Full price will still be charged for the verification. It is, therefore, important to take time with preparing your documents.
5. Verification certificate
After all questions have been answered and documents deemed completely compliant, we create a verification certificate/statement, which you upload to INIES database together with your FDES and other information.
Documents to be prepared
The following documents are necessary to perform verification:
- FDES in a compliant format
Please make sure FDES contains all the necessary information. For that, consult Complement National to EN 15804+A2 and INIES General Programme Rules. - LCA background report
In order to make verification faster and smoother, apart from the required information, make sure background report clearly documents the following: all the assumptions made, all sources of information used, necessary explanations on the processes that would help to understand the scope and modelling, as well as the modelling screenshots (as an Annex). - LCA results in Excel format
This helps to speed up verification and will be necessary later for uploading to INIES database. - Product and production process related information
This includes (if applicable): (green) electricity or energy certificates or contracts (GoO, invoices), DoP, test certificates if any specific performance is declared in FDES, product brochures. - Additional LCA information
If not included in background report, the following can be sent separately: variability calculation sheets, allocation to reference flow calculation sheets, energy allocation calculations, etc.