Necessary steps and effort to make Ecoinvent database meet the ILCD Data Network entry-level requirements and PEF data quality requirements

This document is the deliverable D2b of Task 2 “Apply the methodology to analyse a sample of datasets and to extrapolate the findings to the database level to the selected datasets / databases”. After a description of the goal and scope of the analysis in chapter 2, chapter 3 focuses on the organization of the work and on the method adopted to analyse the database. Chapter 4 describes how confidentiality and licences issues have been treated. Then chapter 5 goes into the detail of the analysis of the database, describing its structure and business model, the selection of the datasets, the screening analysis of the whole database and the detailed analysis of the selected datasets. Chapter 6 contains an estimation of the workload required to make Ecoinvent fully compliant with the two quality systems, i.e. ILCD entry level and Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). Finally, chapter 7 closes the report, providing some general conclusions and recommendations. Annexes 1 and 2 collate the minutes of conference calls and of the face-to-face meeting, while Annex 3 contains all the review reports, for the selected datasets, against PEF data quality requirements.