Harmonised technical specifications and European assessment documents shall cover the following list of predetermined environmental essential characteristics related to the life cycle assessment of a product:
| (a) | climate change effects – total |
| (b) | climate change effects – fossil fuels |
| (c) | climate change effects – biogenic |
| (d) | climate change effects – land use and land use change |
| (e) | ozone depletion |
| (f) | acidification potential |
| (g) | eutrophication aquatic freshwater |
| (h) | eutrophication aquatic marine |
| (i) | eutrophication terrestrial |
| (j) | photochemical ozone |
| (k) | abiotic depletion – minerals, metals |
| (l) | abiotic depletion – fossil fuels |
| (m) | water use |
| (n) | particulate matter |
| (o) | ionising radiation, human health |
| (p) | eco-toxicity, freshwater |
| (q) | human toxicity, cancer |
| (r) | human toxicity, non-cancer |
| (s) | land use related impacts. |
Harmonised technical specifications shall also cover to the extent possible the predetermined environmental essential characteristic of capability to temporarily bind carbon and of other carbon removals.