The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded the three year EPEAT development process through a cooperative agreement with the Zero Waste Alliance www.zerowaste.org. EPA is also providing $375,000 in grant money over three years to the Green Electronics Council to fund the initial startup costs. By the end of the start-up phase, EPEAT will be funded by fees paid by the manufacturers based on their relative size in the market.

The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) is a procurement tool to help large volume purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare, and select desktop computers, notebooks, and monitors based on their environmental attributes.

A set of voluntary environmental performance criteria, which is specified in the IEEE 1680 American National Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products standard. The standard identifies 23 required criteria and 28 optional criteria. A summary of the IEEE 1680 standard is available here Copies of the full IEEE 1680 standard must be purchased from IEEE. To purchase a copy of IEEE 1680 visit http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/ Simply search for 1680.

There are 23 required criteria and 28 optional criteria. They are divided into the following eight categories: For additional details, a summary of the IEEE 1680 standard, which is the foundation of the EPEAT system, click here. Copies of the full IEEE 1680 standard must be purchased from IEEE. To purchase a copy of IEEE 1680 visit http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/. Simply search for 1680.

Jeff Omelchuck, Director, Green Electronics Council, jeff.omelchuck@greenelectronicscouncil.org, 503-574-3346 Scot Case, Marketing Director, Green Electronics Council, scot.case@greenelectronicscouncil.org, 610-779-3770 Wayne Rifer , Project Manager, Zero Waste Alliance, wayne.rifer@greenelectronicscouncil.org, 503-644-0294

It is likely that EPEAT will expand to include additional electronic products at some point in the future. When it does, the process will be similar to the extensive, multi-stakeholder, consensus-based process used to develop the current EPEAT standard. No timeline has yet been established.

EPEAT provides manufacturers with a clear and consistent set of environmental performance criteria. It avoids the market chaos that can result when well-intentioned purchasers each develop their own unique standards.

Purchasers are encouraged to require that products be EPEAT registered using the following contract language: All desktops, laptops, and computer monitors provided under this contract are required to have achieved Bronze registration or higher under the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT).

EPEAT was designed to meet the unique needs of large volume purchasers (i.e., federal agencies, state and local governments, colleges and universities, and Fortune 1000 companies and their suppliers). Individuals wishing to buy EPEAT compliant computers can review the product list available at http://www.epeat.net/ . Individual buyers should be aware, however, that some of the environmental criteria might not be available for individual purchasers.

EPEAT identifies EPEAT registered products in one of three environmental performance tiers -- Bronze, Silver or Gold.

Stakeholders agreed that, due to the time-sensitive nature of electronic product development, EPEAT should not be a tool that required a lengthy application, review, and approval process. Instead, EPEAT adopted and refined the self-verification process already used successfully by the U.S. federal government's Energy Star program.

Provide marketplace rewards for innovation by clearly recognizing products that reduce environmental and health impacts;

We expect that manufacturers will be able to access the system to register products in May 2006, and the registry will be available for public viewing and searching for registered products in June 2006.

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