- Commission source describing the green claims proposal intent and substantiation/verification emphasis.
References and citations
- Life-cycle based reference method context for substantiation design.
Design evidence so it is provable, exportable, and repeatable.
Focus: evidence architecture, data quality, verification logs, and disclosures.
Structured answer sets in this page tree.
Cited legal and guidance references.
A green claims program fails when evidence is scattered and reviewers can't reconstruct what the claim means and how it was calculated. Build an evidence pack system that answers: what is the claim, what is the boundary, what method was used, what data supports it, what trade-offs exist, who verified it, and what did consumers see.
Define the evidence pack structure that you will export during disputes or regulator inquiries. Then map each section to an owner and a system-of-record.
Measure time-to-evidence: how quickly can you export a complete pack for a high-impact claim?
SSOT can take EU Green Claims Substantiation and Evidence Pack from reusing this material inside a governed evidence system to a reusable workflow inside Sorena. Teams working on EU Green Claims can keep owners, evidence, and next steps aligned without copying this guide into separate documents.
Start from EU Green Claims Substantiation and Evidence Pack and keep documents, evidence, and control records in one governed system.
Review your current process, evidence gaps, and next steps for EU Green Claims Substantiation and Evidence Pack.
Boundaries and assumptions are the main attack surface. If they are not explicit, consumers will assume the broadest interpretation.
For claims tied to lifecycle performance, reference methods like PEF/OEF can improve consistency (where appropriate).
'We used supplier data' is not a data quality story. Maintain a dataset inventory and quality criteria.
If you rely on secondary datasets or industry averages, document representativeness and uncertainty.
Verification is an operational control: checklists, reviewer roles, and logged decisions.
Approval logs reduce chaos: you can explain who approved the claim and based on what evidence.
A claim without disclosure is often misleading even if calculations are correct.
Write disclosures as reusable components (one paragraph + a 'learn more' link) that match the evidence pack.