C0250 - CEC Assessment Plan Form - Guidance
Introduction
This page is supposed to provide guidance to the vendor how to use the cecAP to define and prepare the Environmental Claim for the CEC Assessment.
If you have any questions that the current version of this page and the FAQs page do not answer, please send your questions to contact@cecocert.com so that we can update and amend accordingly. Many thanks in advance!
Purpose of the cecAP
The CEC Assessment Plan form, subsequently referred to as “CECAP”, is used throughout the CEC Certification process to define and review one Environmental Claim.
Where to get the cecAP?
The cecAP is included in the CEC Document Package provided to vendors once they have signed the CEC NDA, and as an update from time to time.
If the cecAP form you have is more than 6 months old, it is recommended to ask your assessor for an updated version.
Structure of the cecAP
The cecAP consists of a set of worksheets:
| Name of CECAP worksheet | Purpose of CECAP worksheet |
|---|---|
| Coversheet | Define the vendor and contact information for this Environmental Claim High level information about the Environmental Claim, including the commercial product name, and the type of product or service. Names of the manufacturing sites to be included in the Environmental Claim Summary information about the CEC Assessment result, once the CEC Assessment has been completed |
| Claim Details | This worksheet is used to define the KPIs specifying the environmental impact of the Environmental Claim, such as ent energy consumption to make one unit, the mass of recycled material used, and the carbon footprint, according the rules of the CEC Scheme. |
| AP Claim | Assessment Plan (“AP”) for the assessment of the high level information defined on the coversheet |
| AP Program | Assessment Plan (“AP”) for the assessment of the vendor’s activities necessary to produce the product or service subject to the Environmental Claim. |
| AP Claim | Assessment Plan (“AP”) for the assessment of the KPIs defining the environmental impact, and their supporting information. |
| AP Regressions | Assessment Plan ("AP") for the assessment of regressions, if any. Regressions are KPIs were the performance of the product or service subjects to the Environmental Claim is worse relative to the applicable CEC Baseline. |
Completing the cecAP Form
Initial completion of the cecAP Form
| 1. | Initial completion of the form |
|---|---|
| 1.1 | Chose a Baseline in the "Coversheet" worksheet in field D32. The "CEC Baseline" column in the "Claim Details" worksheet then should automatically be populated with the data from the CEC Baseline. |
| 1.2 | Complete the Technical Contact information in the Coversheet, fields D5 to D16. List the sites to be included in this claim in columns D19 to D26. Only list more than one site when the KPIs defined in the worksheet "Claim Details" are representative for more than one site, and you have calculated weighted average values for each KPI. Such weighted average must weigh each site by the number of products subject to this claim the site produces. |
| 1.3 | In the worksheet "Claim Description", complete the relevant fields in column E. |
| 1.4 | In the worksheet "Claim Details", complete the relevant fields in column G. Optionally, in the worksheet "Claim Details", complete the fields in column F, to report an internal Baseline, should you choose to do so. If you report an internal Baseline, it might be considered by CEC in a future revision of the public Baseline. |
| 1.5 | Complete the blue sections of the worksheets 'AP Claim', 'AP Program', 'AP Metrics' |
| 1.6 | If the claim shows significant regressions, then go to the "Regressions" worksheet. Metrics with significant regressions are shown with a coloured background; Metrics without regressions are shown with a grey background. Complete columns J and K for the Metrics with significant regressions, following the guidance given in the notes in the cells I10, J10, and K10. |
| 1.7 | Email the completed cecAPform to contact@cecocert.comt |
Updating the CECAP Form
| 2. | Update of the form |
|---|---|
| 2.1 | Before you start updating any information, ensure you remove any previous update markings (underlined). No text should be formatted as underlined at this stage. |
| 2.2 | Update the information in there as needed. Format any updated information as underlined. |
| 2.3 | Email the completed form to the contact@cecocert.com |
Note: the e-mail address of the CEC Contact is contact@cecocert.com.