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The United Kingdom Accreditation Service is proposing to establish a project to develop accreditation for ISO/IEC 17029 Conformity assessment — General principles and requirements for validation and verification bodies of ISO 14067:2018 Greenhouse gases — Carbon footprint of products — Requirements and guidelines for quantification.

Several core EU policies require or benefit from footprint data calculated and verified under ISO 14067

• EU Green Claims Directive: Imposes strict anti-greenwashing rules, requiring environmental and climate claims (such as “carbon neutral”) to be scientifically substantiated using standardized quantification.
• Digital Product Passports (DPP): Mandates precise product-level carbon data for access to sectors like batteries, textiles, and electronics. ISO 14067 provides the structure to meet these transparency thresholds.
• Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): Requires accurate, verifiable reporting of embedded greenhouse gas emissions for imported goods.
• Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR): Expands sustainability and circularity rules across broad product groups, increasingly necessitating Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs).

From this announcement, UKAS will determine the demand and priority for developing accreditation in this area. Therefore, please could you register your interest in this activity to UKAS via email (developmentenquiries@ukas.com) by 3rd July  2026.

Organisations that wish to participate are asked to provide the following information:

• Name of organisation
• Confirm whether your interest is in assisting with the development of the assessment/or as a potential pilot project applicant
• Status of any current accreditation
• Current involvement in validation and verification activities in the sustainability sector
• Current activity – are you already working with clients in this area

Organisations that submit an expression of interest will be invited to attend the meeting of interested parties where the terms of the project will be discussed along with a proposed timeline for key stages and any phased approach process that is deemed necessary. Following this meeting, conformity assessment bodies will be required to submit a formal application to UKAS for the scope of accreditation sought and an agreement to the terms and conditions of the pilot programme before their participation is confirmed. There will be an opportunity to ask any scope specific questions on the details of the pilot programme at this stage.

Please note that if a development project was established a pilot programme will be required whereby there would be a development fee associated with participation in addition to the normal assessment fees.

UKAS is currently gauging the potential level of interest in this area so would also like to hear from technical experts that may wish to support UKAS as a stakeholder to provide expertise and support to the development of accreditation criteria and process.

Please note that submitting an expression of interest does not indicate any commitment to participate in the project on the part of the interested parties, and nor does the acceptance of an expression of interest commit UKAS to accept the interested party on any future pilot project.

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