In 2025, GEC completed an ambitious, multi-year initiative to update EPEAT criteria. These criteria appear in five separate documents: Climate Change Mitigation, Sustainable Use of Resources, Reduction of Chemicals of Concern, Responsible Supply Chains, and Consumables (for imaging equipment products only) and are currently being implemented across EPEAT ICT product categories, starting with Computers and Displays, Imaging Equipment, Mobile Phones, Servers, and Televisions.
To ensure different definitions for each product type were not developed for each of the five Criteria documents developed through the balanced, voluntary consensus, definitions for each product type within each product category were vetted and reviewed with stakeholders as part of EPEAT’s Conformity Guidance Group process. Examples of different product types include monitors, printers and rack-mounted servers.
Definitions for each of product type can now be found on the About EPEAT Page and at this link. The source for each definition is provided, and this document may be updated to reflect updates made to sourced definitions.
Please contact EPEAT@gec.org if you have any questions on this document.
