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Reply to the editorial “Product environmental footprint—breakthrough or breakdown for policy implementation of life cycle assessment?” written by Prof. Finkbeiner (Int J Life Cycle Assess 19(2):266–271)

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Notes

  1. Flash Eurobarometer on Attitudes of Europeans towards building the single market for green products (http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/flash_arch_374_361_en.htm#367)

  2. Information underlying this analysis can be found in the Impact Assessment accompanying the Commission Communication Building the Single Market for Green Products, Commission Staff Working Paper (2013) 111

  3. European Commission - Joint Research Centre - Institute for Environment and Sustainability. Analysis of Existing Environmental Footprint Methodologies for Products and Organisations: Recommendations, Rationale, and Alignment. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/pdf/Deliverable.pdf

  4. For more information on the European Environmental Footprint pilot phase, please visit the website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/index.htm

  5. For details on how to register, see http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/pdf/Wiki_reginstr.pdf

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  1. Directorate General for the Environment (DG ENV), European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 5, 1160, Brussels, Belgium

    Michele Galatola

  2. Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027, Ispra, Italy

    Rana Pant

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Galatola, M., Pant, R. Reply to the editorial “Product environmental footprint—breakthrough or breakdown for policy implementation of life cycle assessment?” written by Prof. Finkbeiner (Int J Life Cycle Assess 19(2):266–271). Int J Life Cycle Assess 19, 1356–1360 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-014-0740-3

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