Product & Service Certification

EU 2015/2067 and EC 304/2008 regulations state that operators who carry out maintenance, repairs and installations of equipment containing FGAS have the obligation to certify their professional competence.
Apave Certification Italy was among the first bodies to be accredited by Accredia and recognised by the Ministry of the Environment as a competent body for undertaking certification activities and is a leader in Italy in the certification of FGAS companies with over 9500 certificates issued.

Apave Certification Italy has developed an accredited (Accredia) certification process against the UNI CEI 11352:2014 standard, aimed at organisations offering energy services in the industrial and civil sectors. This certification has proven to provide guaranteed results in terms of savings achieved.

This standard requires that the ESCo (Energy Service Companies), through their services, guarantee a level of energy efficiency for the client, measured through the reduction of energy consumption compared to the initial one.

This type of "Energy Performance Contract" (or EPC) is becoming more and more popular in both industrial and civil sectors as it allows companies to concentrate on their own activities by entrusting the management of auxiliary installations (boilers, cogenerators, inverters, compressed air plants, etc.) to specialists in the sector.
The UNI CEI 11352 standard is a support tool for national energy policies. It was drawn up on the basis of the requirements of Article 16 of Legislative Decree no. 115/2008, a transposition into Italian law of Directive 2006/32/EC on energy end-use efficiency and energy services. This was further developed by the Ministerial Decree of 7 March 2012, which requires that energy service companies working with public administrations comply with the standard. A further evolution was brought by Legislative Decree 102/2014, the  transposition of Directive 2012/27/EU into Italian law, which states that only certified ESCo will be able to access the white certificates scheme and present energy efficiency projects as voluntary entities.

The UNI/PdR 88:2020 reference practice defines how to verify the recycled and/or recovered and/or by-product content declared by an organization for one of its products placed on the national market, regardless of its type, as long as it is within the scope defined by the practice. The certification issued in accordance with UNI/PdR 88:2020 is considered an appropriate means of verification to demonstrate the requirements for recycled and/or recovered and/or by-product material content indicated in the Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM) issued by the Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea. The practice is equally useful for demonstrating the same requirements for products, components and materials by the various building sustainability protocols (e.g., LEED, ITACA, etc.).
It may prove to be a useful guiding tool for the same organizations wishing to declare such environmental aspects.

Technical Specification DT 002, is a standard owned by Apave Certification Italy developed for the certification of non-GMO products. The non-GMO certification guarantees to the consumer the commitment of the applicant company to avoid contamination by GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), through the preparation of a technical document, defined by the producer and approved for certification purposes.

 

The standard is normally applied to products or derivatives that may originate from, or be contaminated by, genetically modified matrices such as:

• Livestock feed
• Food intended for human consumption7

This certification can be requested by livestock feed producers, distribution chains, food processors using maize and soya or their derivatives, animal supply chains and maize and soya chains.

ISO 20400 is a guide for integrating sustainability and responsibility throughout the supply chain. It is intended for stakeholders involved in, or affected by, the procurement process and is aimed at those responsible for the procurement processes of organisations in the supply chain.

This technical standard outlines considerations that should be incorporated into different aspects of procurement, including product life cycle analysis, due diligence, analysis of direct and indirect complicity in human rights violations and overall cost. "Today, it is no longer sufficient for companies to simply rely on suppliers to get what they want, without asking questions" (Jacques Schramm, President ISO/PC 277).