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Predetermined environmental essential characteristics Harmonised technical specifications and European assessment documents shall cover the following list of predetermined environmental essential characteristics related to the life cycle assessment of a product:

(a) climate change effects – total;

(b) climate change effects – fossil fuels;

(c) climate change effects – biogenic;

(d) climate change effects – land use and land use change;

(e) ozone depletion;

(f) acidification potential;

(g) eutrophication aquatic freshwater;

(h) eutrophication aquatic marine;

(i) eutrophication terrestrial;

(j) photochemical ozone;

(k) abiotic depletion – minerals, metals;

(l) abiotic depletion – fossil fuels;

(m) water use;

(n) particulate matter;

(o) ionising radiation, human health;

(p) eco-toxicity, freshwater;

(q) human toxicity, cancer;

(r) human toxicity, non-cancer;

(s) land use related impacts. Harmonised technical specifications shall also cover to the extent possible the predetermined environmental essential characteristic of capability to temporarily bind carbon and of other carbon removals.