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EU-LCI values summary fact sheets

EU-LCI values summary fact sheets batch 5 (March 2023)
EU-LCI values summary fact sheets batch 4 (February 2022)
EU-LCI values summary fact sheets batch 3 (February 2021)
EU-LCI values summary fact sheets batch 2 (February 2020)
EU-LCI values summary fact sheets batch 1 (July 2018)

If you want to know more about the background of the values, how they're derived and applied. See our EU-LCI value facts and information document

Technical documents

EU-LCI technical files - Toxicological basis data and proposal for defining EU-LCI values (February 2022)

Other documents

Full texts

The full text of ECA report 29 on the development of EU-LCIs
European collaborative action urban air, indoor environment and human exposure - Harmonisation framework for health-based evaluation of indoor emissions from construction products in the European Union using the EU-LCI concept (PDF, 3 MB)

The full texts of ECA report 27 and ECA report 24 on labelling schemes
European collaborative action urban air, indoor environment and human exposure - Harmonisation framework for indoor products labelling schemes in the EU (PDF, 14 MB)

European collaborative action urban air, indoor environment and human exposure - Harmonisation of indoor material emissions labelling systems in the EU - Inventory of existing schemes (PDF 353 kB)

The full text of ECA report 18, that first referred to the EU-LCI concept
European collaborative action indoor air quality and its impact on man -Evaluation of VOC emissions from building materials - Solid flooring materials (PDF 2,8 MB)

Related

Also, see the indoor air quality page of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) which was instrumental in establishing the EU-LCI initiative.

See the paper on the progress EU-LCI group's work, presented at the Indoor Air Conference 2016 in Ghent, Belgium: Health-based evaluation of chemical emissions to indoor air from construction products: Development and application of the EU-LCI harmonisation framework (PDF, 341 kB)

See the poster on challenges faced by the EU-LCI group, prepared by Christine Däumling and Ana Maria Scutaru for the 2013 ISEE/ISES Conference in Basel: Challenges in harmonising the evaluation of building product emissions in Europe (PDF, 4 MB)

See the short paper on the harmonisation framework for product emissions in Europe is available here: Harmonised regulation and labelling of product emissions – A new initiative by the European Commission (PDF, 71 kB)

See the paper on the progress EU-LCI group's progress, presented at the Healthy Buildings Conference 2017 in Lublin, Poland: EU-LCI harmonisation framework for the health-based evaluation of VOC emissions to indoor air from construction products (1 MB)

See the poster on the derivation of the EU-LCI value for propylene glycol monomethyl ether (PGME) presented at the ISIAQ-ISES Conference 2019 in Kaunas, Lithuania: Derivation of EU-lowest concentration of interest (LCI) of propylene glycol monomethyl ether for the health-based assessment of emission levels from construction products (117 kB)

Previous press releases and announcements

ANSES, France, Cranfield University, UK,

Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, NFA, Denmark, UBA, Germany

University of Freiburg, Germany, University of Milan, Italy, VITO, Belgium

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