Among global green mark certification schemes, EPEAT adopted by US government demanding 95 % products must be EPEAT registered is the most influential and successful one since 2007. Electronics and information products are major products for industrial sector. Taiwan brand manufacturers have to apply both Taiwan Green Mark and EPEAT for domestic and international market, respectively. It is not easy for local manufacturers to establish international brands. Although those brands meet EPEAT criteria representing the conformity to international standard, they have to meet local standard for relative smaller market. If we can keep current scheme unchanged and construct another route allowing manufacturers to register once and receive more than one certificate will be helpful to strengthen the competence of local companies. In this report, we analyze the differences between Taiwan Green Mark and EPEAT. It includes the no. of categories (4 vs. 100), environmental regulations for specific products, pre-market or after market investigation strategies. Except the suggestion for retaining current scheme, other suggestions are also made as follows: 1. fully comply with the EPEAT criteria; 2. comply with EPEAT criteria for common items (short term); 3 add an "EPEAT product" category (long term), which includes 4 current product items and 8 future product items. Environmental criteria and investigation strategies are also in compliance with EPEAT. Then, utilizing a common registration and investigation entity i.e., a local certification body is also an EPEAT PRE, applicants are able to apply once and receive two certificates at the same time. A “Taiwan certification once, multi-countries pass” goal is then attained.

Ecolable;Green consumption;Green product;Green Procurement;EPEAT