CEN / TS 16137 1 is a testing standard that defines how the biobased carbon content in a material or product is measured.
EN 13432 2 and EN 14995 are the European norms for industrial compostability.
ISO 14040 – Life Cycle Assessment – focuses on describing the principles and framework of life cycle assessments.
ISO 14067 – Carbon Footprint of Products
ISO 14020 series: The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) issued the ISO 14020 series on “environmental labels and declaration” in 1999. This series provides the main international guidelines to relevant “green claims” publications. The standard promotes three different types of environmental labels and declarations:
Type I environmental labelling (14024),
Type II self-declared environmental claims (14021),
Type III environmental declaration (14025).3
EN 16785-1 is the European standard to measure the biobased content of products and packaging. EN 16785-1 not only takes into account the biobased carbon content, but also the total biobased content including carbon, oxygen. nitrogen and hydrogen.
1 US-equivalent = ASTM 6866.
2 US-equivalent = ASTM 6400
3 Answer taken from ‘Frequently Asked Questions on Bioplastics’, Aug 2013, European Bioplastics. For more information:
http://en.european-bioplastics.org/standards/
http://en.european-bioplastics.org/ecg-4/