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About the ETV

What is ETV?

Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is a system created to demonstrate the performance of environmental technologies ready for commercialization.

ETV aims to strengthen investors' and customers' confidence in environmentally friendly technologies. At the same time, it is designed to assist suppliers/developers of innovative technologies in their commercialization, stimulate innovation, and enhance the competitiveness of suppliers of new, eco-friendly technical solutions.

ETV involves impartially and credibly demonstrating that the performance claims of environmental technologies made by suppliers, developers, and manufacturers are true and based on test data produced under the highest standards of reliability and quality control.

Both technologies ready for commercialization and those already on the market can be subject to performance verification, provided they either reduce negative environmental impact or allow for more effective measurement of environmental parameters reflecting environmental impact compared to existing solutions.

Verifications are carried out based on standardized procedures defined in ISO 14034 Environmental Management: Environmental Technology Verification, following the scheme below:

ETV verification process:

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ETV objectives

  • Increase the trust of investors in innovative environmental technologies
  • Give more credibility to developers of innovative technologies
  • Enable technology users to benefit of innovation and select technologies meeting their needs
  • Reduce the risk for investors and purchasers investing in new technologies
  • Facilitate or accelerate the diffusion of eco-innovation on regional, national and international markets

Who benefits from ETV and how?

Manufacturers 

  • ETV provides objective and reliable evidence on the performance of technologies they are bringing to the market, in order to convince investors and customers about the benefits they can gain from their use
  • helps avoid costly demonstrations for the needs of individual clients
  • data from verifications can be used as proof in public tenders

Innovative enterprises may be particularly interested in this approach to differentiate their technologies from that of larger competitors.

Policy makers/regulators/insurance companies

  • ETV facilitates the implementation of public policies and regulations by providing citizens, regulators and decision-makers with solid information on the level of performance achievable by new environmental technologies ready for the market
  • ETV helps better assess investment and technological risks related to the implementation of a technology and thus the relevance of the investment
  • ETV supports meeting the requirements of due diligence procedures.

Purchasers (public & private) planning investments in technologies:

  • ETV supports purchasers who need to base their buying decisions on sound information, widely recognised as scientifically valid and acceptable as proof of evidence in tendering and purchasing procedures
  • ETV helps reduce investment and technological risks

Information provided by ETV enables making useful comparisons and identify technologies that best fit users’ needs.