Introduction

Certification of a claim consumes resources from both the Vendor, and the CEC Administration and CEC Assessors.

Preparing and assessing multiple claims from the same Vendor often allows for significant synergies if the claims are processed in parallel at the same time.

To reward Vendors organizing themselves such that the resulting effort is optimized, CEC grants significant discounts to Vendors who offer the processing of multiple claims in parallel.

The different options

Single Product and single Site

Preparation of a claim for initial certification typically consists of the optional LCA support by CEC to the Vendor to determine the KPIs, and the mandatory CEC Assessment.

In case of a single site and a single product, the cost sums up as follows:

LCA Support

CEC Assessment

Sum

Two Products and single Site - without co-ordination

If the vendor certifies another product for example 4 month after the first one, the same cost occurs for the second product, and so on for additional products.

So, if CEC Assessment of products is not co-ordinated, then the total cost for CEC certification is 5000 USD/product/site/year:

The same applies if the vendor wants to add the same product produced in an additional site.

Two Products and single Site - with co-ordination

If the vendor orders and processes the LCA support and CEC Assessment for two products produced in the same site at the same time, then the following applies:

LCA Support

Only the cost for one additional product is added for the second product, the site fee is charged only once. Hence:

Condition:

All products are processed at the same time by TruCert.

CEC Assessment

Only the cost for one additional product is added for the second product, the CEC Assessment Base fee and the site fee are charged only once.

Condition:

All products are processed at the same time by TruCert, there is one CEC Assessment addressing all products; the CEC Assessment may be spread over multiple days.

Sum

If the vendor certifies multiple products, and provides the data for the LCA suport service at the same time, and co-ordinates the CEC Assessments such that the products can be audited at the same time, the above described synergies sum up as follows: