EPEAT Registration Instructions

1. Buy a copy of IEEE 1680 from IEEE at http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/search.aspx. Search for 1680. EPEAT is based on this standard. Note the “Verification Requirements” for each criterion. Understand that you should be prepared to provide the information identified for all registered products.
   
2. Download the Excel spreadsheet assessment tool to help you evaluate whether specific products meet EPEAT requirements, and at what level (Gold, Silver, Bronze).
   
3. Download the EPEAT Subscriber and License Agreement and Subscriber Set-up Form and the EPEAT Fee Schedule. All manufacturers that want to register products in EPEAT must sign and return the Agreement and Form.
   
4. Get a corporate officer of your company to sign the Agreement and send it to EPEAT. Also complete the “Subscriber Set-up Form” and send it in with the Agreement.
   
5. Pay the EPEAT annual fee as identified in the EPEAT 2007-2008 Fee Schedule via check or EFT. The fee allows the company to register an unlimited number of products.
   
6. When EPEAT receives the Agreement, the Set-up form, and the payment from your company, we will send the person identified in the Set-up form as your company EPEAT Administrator an email that will include a user name and password to log into the EPEAT registry application.
   
7. Your company EPEAT Administrator can then log into the product registry and set-up your company (including setting up additional company administrators and users, if they choose).
   
8. Some of the criteria of IEEE 1680 relate to company-wide programs rather than product-specific criteria. These criteria are declared by the manufacturer once per year for all products in an “Annual Report.” Several of these “Annual Report Criteria” are required criteria in IEEE 1680, so a company Administrator must answer a few questions on-line in order to declare any/all of the company’s products to those criteria. No products will appear on the registry until that company’s Annual Report Criteria are declared.
   
9. Any administrator or user can then register individual products. This consists of declaring Yes/No for each criteria of IEEE 1680 for that product (although a few criteria require the user to declare a specific value).
   
10. In order to ensure that the new subscriber seems to be using the registry effectively and appropriately EPEAT completes a “desk review” of the first registrations entered by each subscriber before those products appear on the registry. This “desk review” is expected to be completed in a few days for each product, during which time the EPEAT staff will contact the subscriber if they have any questions. After the initial products pass the desk review they will appear on the registry. After a number of products pass desk review with no issues the desk review process is removed for that subscriber. Thereafter, products registered by that subscriber will appear on the registry immediately. EPEAT can re-institute desk review for any subscriber if warranted.
    
11. EPEAT is responsible for verifying that all units of all registered products meet the criteria as registered. All subscribers should be prepared to submit to EPEAT the information identified as “Verification Requirements” for each criterion of IEEE 1680 for each registered product within 30 days of EPEAT’s request.

Assessment Tool

A downloadable assessment tool is provided to allow manufacturers to assess their products' standing before submitting any product information to the online EPEAT system.  The assessment tool is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which may be downloaded and saved to the manufacturer's desktop. 

1.   Click download link.
2.   Save the file on your computer.
3.   Open the file.
4.   Enable macros if prompted to do so.
5.   If you do not have the option to enable macros, you must adjust your security settings.  (In order for the tool to work properly macros must be enabled.)
   1.   Click on "Tools" menu option
   2.   Click on "Macro"
   3.   Click on "Security"
   4.   Set your security to "Medium" or "Low"
   5.   Save the Assessment Tool on your computer.
   6.   Close and reopen the file.
   7.   You should now have the option to enable macros.