EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation method term for environmental footprint (ef) impact assessment.
Environmental footprint (EF) impact assessment should be read as part of the PEF method stack: goal/scope, inventory modelling, impact assessment, quantified profile, reporting, and category-rule support. It is not a standalone product-compliance claim.
Commission Recommendation (EU) 2021/2279 on the use of Environmental Footprint methods
phase of the PEF analysis aimed at understanding and evaluating the magnitude and significance of the potential environmental impacts for a product system throughout the life cycle of the product. The impact assessment methods provide impact characterisation factors for elementary flows, to aggregate the impact so as to obtain a limited number of midpoint indicators.
Annex I Product Environmental Footprint Method definitions. Recommendation/method source, not binding product-law vocabulary by itself.
Reference: Annex I, Definitions — Environmental footprint (EF) impact assessment
Implementation records should capture the PEF study identifier, product scope, functional unit or representative-product link where relevant, data sources, impact categories, profile results, report references, and any applicable PEFCR or benchmark context.
For Minespider, EF Recommendation terms help separate carbon-footprint claims from broader product environmental-footprint method evidence. They should route to study, dataset, impact-category, result-profile, benchmark, and report objects.