Webinar Invitation: GEC Initiating Stakeholder Engagement Opportunity to Solicit Feedback on Key EPEAT Policy and Programmatic Topics

The Global Electronics Council (GEC) is dedicated to continuous improvement of the EPEAT Program. To this end, GEC monitors industry trends, regulatory changes, and market drivers which may impact EPEAT, and responds accordingly. Although GEC has mechanisms in place to monitor these broader external factors, we believe stakeholder input is of paramount importance to ensuring that EPEAT continues to be the leading global Type 1 ecolabel for electronics.

Stakeholder feedback and insights are an integral component of GEC’s management of the EPEAT Program and are particularly important during the annual policy revision process where stakeholder feedback is sought not only during the formal public stakeholder comment period every October, but also earlier in the year through stakeholder engagement sessions on specific policy and programmatic topics. These stakeholder engagement sessions provide important preliminary input to GEC and help inform GEC’s thinking before developing proposed policy or programmatic revisions.

This year, GEC is soliciting preliminary stakeholder feedback on the following topics:

1. EPEAT Registry: How information is displayed in the Registry
2. Updated Documentation Review process

To engage stakeholders and obtain feedback on the topics above, GEC is hosting two stakeholder engagement sessions. Participation is entirely optional, and all stakeholders are welcome to attend.

The first stakeholder engagement session is taking place on June 12, 2024. In this session, GEC will describe the topics GEC is seeking feedback on and identify specific issues and discussion questions for stakeholder consideration. The purpose of the first session is simply to introduce key concepts to stakeholders; GEC will not be presenting any proposed changes at this time.

To accommodate worldwide locations, we have scheduled three times for each session. Registration is required—please use the registration links below to sign up.

Please direct any questions to epeat@gec.org