In conformance with the Communication on Integrated Product Policy, the European Commission recommends to promote towards SMEs the use of Life Cycle Thinking to develop more environmentally-friendly products and services market. The adoption of this approach in the design processes aims at minimising the environmental impacts of products taking into account the entire life cycle (design, production, distribution, use and disposal).

The DEPUIS project - Design of Environmentally-friendly Products Using Information Standards - aims at improving the environmental friendly design of new products and services through the innovative use of new information standards.

These new information standards use an information model to provide a computer-processable specification for product data that is independent from any proprietary software system.

These standards support the neutral exchange of data between different computer systems and are the basis for long-term data retention and archiving.

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