Good morning everyone, so the Trustex project is about textiles as well and it's really about
advancing textiles in circular value chain and focusing specifically on ERP schemes.
So first of all I will introduce the role of Terra Matters in Trustex so that you understand
what we do there. So we work on work package number two which is about value chain digitalization
and the objective of the work package is to develop DPP infrastructure that will obviously look at
traceability, sustainability and circularity in the textile sector. So the work package is spread
across the six tasks that you can see on the screen. This is really about developing not just the
DPP system infrastructure but it's also about how data is going to travel
along the supply chain, how to collect the data, how to make sure that the data can
operate with other systems. We will also look at the data carrier technology. We talk about QR codes,
RFIDs, JTNs, so many, many solutions that could carry the data for the DPP.
And we have like a transversal topic which is about the governance aspects of the DPP.
So the challenges that we face at the moment, many opportunities as well but some challenges
which are really around the fact that there is a lack of standardization. There is a lot of standards
existing not just on circularity but also on a DPP. We know that for DPPs we are all waiting for
delegated acts to know exactly what type of information is going to be available in the DPP.
So we need to make assumptions. We don't know for now. We have some trends, we have some indication
from the GRC studies but we are making assumptions about the data that will be in the DPP.
On the next slide you see the other partners involved in the work package.
So we've started working on the task in month six. We are about five months in the actual work of the
tasks. This was really just to give you an overview of who else is taking part into these tasks.
HDA was in the room as well working on the governance aspect. CETIM is working on the
DPP infrastructure and made to flow working on the data collection system and scan trust working
more on the data carrier aspect of the DPP.
Yeah that's pretty much it for this slide. So now I want to talk about how the data can enable
a circular value chain and you will see that my presentation will be very similar to the one
we've just seen from PUMA which is great. So we have the same challenges and the same way
to look at it. What I want to lay the stress on is really that value chains are complex and there
is a lot of data that circulates along the value chain and the current status quo is on the fact
that there is no standardization on the data format. You could have data on spreadsheets,
you could have them on different ERP systems that don't connect very well together.
So this is one of the first challenges. The other one is that there may be different definitions
for the same terms. They don't always mean the same thing for different users.
It's also sometimes very difficult to go back up in the supply chain when you have
missing data. I mean above minus tier two it's really hard sometimes to find the information
and there are also different data needs. If you look at the supply chain again on this screen
you can imagine that what or the kind of data that you would need for a consultant that will
help you on improving the circularity of your product is not necessarily the same data that
a label will require or that a certification will require to give you a certificate and it's
maybe again not the same that will go in the DPP solution to your DPP service provider.
So this is why this is complex and this is why we need to standardize
the way that the data navigates along the supply chain.
So we have chosen to use the PCDS to offer this standardized framework to build the DPP.
So what is the PCDS? It's the product circularity data sheet. It's an ISO standard which comes from the
family of standard 59,000 which is about circular economy generally speaking so not
attached to any sector so it could be applied to any physical product.
It's basically to make it very simple. It's a standardized template so you can imagine
like a digital form that can be filled in and it's standardized because it has the same definition
the same format to describe the circularity of a product.
It's quite simple. It's a tool that is really meant to exchange information
and exchange circularity data between suppliers and buyers or suppliers and consultants or DPP
solution providers. But it's also meant to be quite general so that it doesn't share too much
information to protect trade secrets or recipes or anything that maybe a supplier wouldn't be
comfortable sharing in the open public. It's also a reliable document because the ISO
standard describes the way that the data that is put in a PCDS can be audited
and it plans a different level of auditability. The first one which is what we call the first
party audit which is really between a supplier and a buyer for instance but you can also
have a higher level of verification by a third party and we are also working on a certification
program which is like a third party audit but with a verification from an accredited body.
So this is again to prevent green-washing to make sure that the data that has been declared in a
PCDS is true and all the information that is put in a PCDS should always be ready to be audited
I mean the supplier should be ready to substantiate the claims that he is making.
So just to go into detail of the structure of the PCDS so the first two chapters are about
the template version so this is really more technical. The second part is about the product
and the supplier to identify which well who is the producer where it was produced and in the
textile it's usually the we are still discussing this by the way but it seems like it's going
to be the latest point of assembly for textile products and it also gives a description of
the product itself. Then you have a whole chapter looking at the composition of the products
and you have several statements looking at dangerous substances whether the product contains
reused parts whether it contains recycled material or renewable content.
The next part is on the production itself so whether the facility that produced the
the the government for instance has used renewable energy or recirculated water or
like yeah any any kind of circular economy principles applied to production.
The next one is around durability and this part contains many questions about the durability
aspects which cover the repairability the ability of the product to be demounted
disassembled reused or refurbished and the next part is about the end of life of the product
so whether the product releases particles during use in the environments whether it can be dismantled
to be reintroduced in industrial processes whether it can be remanufactured whether
it's recyclable and compostable and the last chapter is a smaller one but it looks at the
the circular benefits of the products itself. So this is how it is structured and how the
statements are filled in it's always a true or false statement so it's really like a tick the box
exercise for for example the question would be has the product been designed to be repaired
and then you tick true or false if the product has been designed to be repaired then there are
other questions where you can supply information for instance on repairability guidance where to
find a repair shop for these specific products or the level of expertise required to repair the
product can I repair it myself with very little knowledge or do I need to take the product to
like a specific expert repairer for instance when you have to supply more specific information
it's always a range it's never the exact data so for example if we take the
reused content the question will be about a mass fraction of the product which is reused
content and it will be a percentage between 0 to 10 percent 10 to 20 percent and so on
and intervals are enough for the PCDS and this is really also the result of the ISO consensus
where industries are not always very I mean a bit reluctant to share exact product composition
you can also link evidence to substantiate your claims all of the statements in the
PCDS allow that if you declare that your product contains some dangerous substances
you can attach a rich declaration for example to substantiate again the claim that you that you
are making so this is how it works in total it's about 120 statements which seems like it's a
lot but again there is no very very precise data required for most of them and among the 130
statements only about half of them are mandatory and some are only optional on this slide I just
wanted to dive into how the PCDS fits in with the existing regulation because there are there
are many regulation that exist already but the first thing to say is that the the PCDS is really
an ISO standard so it's not a mandatory it's a voluntary tool however it really provides the
data infrastructure for many other regulation requirements and I've listed just a few of them
and I'm not going to drill into too much detail but the first one is really around ESPR
because the PCDS provides the data infrastructure for the circularity parts
of all the questions or all the aspect that will go in the DPP it also encourages eco-design
because if you have to design a product when filling a PCDS you will also ask yourself
many questions about the durability of the product that you're designing it also supports
rich implementation because you have you can supply information on material composition
and the presence of hazardous substances it can also be used for
reporting purposes looking at the CSRD specifically and generally speaking it also fights again
against greenwashing and it allows suppliers to substantiate green claims that they are making
so it's also supporting the green transition directive and the support sorry the empowering
consumer directive which is not the green claim directive anymore but it can be used really to
substantiate claims so it's an international standard but it very much fits with EU regulations
as well so I'm just focusing on the DPP because I think it's one of the of the topic that we are
looking at today but how how the PCDS helps to enable the DPP so like I said there is a strong
match between the information required in the PCDS and what the ESPR lists as the
eco-designer requirement it really establishes a harmonized vocabulary with a machine-readable
data infrastructure for the product circularity features I said it before as well but the
data can be verified so it's also very useful for the reliability and the trustworthiness
of the of the document and it's really the initial information that could be used for a DPP
it doesn't record even based information that cannot happen after the sale of a product
but there are still a lot of things that need to be defined in the delegated acts regarding the
traceability of post-sale information but you can really see the PCDS as the the static
data for a product looking at circularity performance or design when the product leaves
the factory before it is sold to consumers so yeah it really enables the DPP in that way
on the next slide I'm just focusing on how those substances what you see on the right
side is what the PDF format of the PCDS looks like so this is human-readable but it's also
comes in the in a JSON format for well and can be the information can be transmitted between
information systems through APIs so this is the PDF version and you can see that it has two statements
specifically looking at these hazardous substances on material input so you can supply the the mass
fraction of disclosed chemical substances it looks at whether the product contains hazardous
substances it asks whether a hazardous substance declaration is available publicly and you can
tick yes or no to these questions and at the end of life there is also a statement asking about the
product mass fraction known to be released in the environment during the the use phase of the
product so it's really about circular data information but it is also on a hazardous
substances so it can also help in that way to share information