In what way does it differ from a standard?
Although it refers to standards, regarding fitness-for-use specifications in particular, the "NF Environnement" mark is not itself a standard.
It is specifically geared to accounting for environmental impacts at every stage of a product's life cycle, i.e. to integrating a set of criteria that largely exceed the scope of the technical specifications laid down in standards.
Moreover, the "NF Environnement" mark is only awarded through a third-party certification process, while there are several standards that do not require any form of certification.
This explains why the "NF Environnement" mark constitutes a set of guidelines that outclass standards in terms of the requirements involved.
