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Glimpact's expertise and the innovative nature of its technology for assessing the environmental performance of products are thus recognised at European level for the implementation of major EU advances in the field of ecological transition in two key industrial sectors.
After two European calls for tender and five months of scientific and technical evaluation, the European Commission has chosen the start-up Glimpact and its digital technology for assessing and developing the environmental performance of products and organisations to set up a rigorous system for assessing the environmental footprint of batteries and photovoltaic panels according to the PEF method, which has been adopted by the EC as the methodological reference base.
In December 2022, as part of the Green Deal, the Council and the European Parliament adopted ambitious new regulations on the ecological transition proposed by the EC, making it compulsory from 1 January 2024 for all players in these two industrial sectors operating in Europe to measure and declare the environmental footprint of their products.
In addition to this obligation, as of January 1, 2026, manufacturers of batteries and photovoltaic panels will have to display the performance class of their products with the respect of minimum thresholds that the EU will impose on July 1, 2027 to progressively exclude the most impacting products.
The start-up will thus develop on its standard technology Glimpact, a digital application that will allow these players to dynamically calculate the environmental footprint of their products to meet this new obligation, and the EC to control its proper application.
This system, which aims to guarantee a rigorous, precise and objective assessment of the environmental footprint of batteries and solar panels according to a benchmark for the application of the PEF method to be defined by the EC, will also enable players to comply with the EU's environmental legislation. It will also enable players to comply with the obligation to declare this footprint through a digital passport concept accessible to consumers.
The Commission wished to implement a technical solution to support manufacturers in the implementation of these new regulations.
New regulations adopted by the European Union, which constitute major advances in the ecological transition of industry, as Pascal Canfin, president of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, pointed out. In the long term, they could have a much more general impact. Indeed they contribute to establishing the PEF method as a methodological reference framework for defining and calculating the environmental footprint of products, and to making it accessible to all. Such an EU policy could thus be extended to many other industrial sectors, which would mark a major step in accelerating the ecological transition of European industry.
This EU strategy for the two industries of batteries and photovoltaic solar panels, making the rigorous evaluation of the environmental footprint of their products accessible to all players through the application of Glimpact technology, could finally inspire the French government to define the conditions for the implementation of environmental labelling for food and clothing products, which its Climate andResilience Act makes compulsory in its article 2.
The start-up has already been included in the two experiments undertaken by theMinistry of Ecological Transition in these two sectors, notably through a Consortium it initiated, bringing together 14 major textile brands (including Lacoste, Decathlon,Chantelle, Aigle, Dim, Celio, Okaidi, Jules, Groupe Beaumanoir, etc.), with the aim of proposing an environmental labelling approach based precisely on the PEF method and its Glimpact technology.
The government cannot ignore the dynamic initiated by the EU in the battery and photovoltaic panel sectors, in order to implement environmental labelling in France in the food and clothing sectors, which have been defined as priorities, particularly with regard to the definition of a clear methodological reference framework for calculating the environmental footprint (the PEF method) and the technical conditions for application.
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