ECLASS Release 15.0 – available now!

ECLASS and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

With the release of ECLASS Release 15.0, we are also providing around 250 new classification class definitions. For the first time, the definitions have been created using artificial intelligence and then quality checked by experts from the ECLASS community before being approved for the new release. These important content enhancements in several areas will ensure more accurate and comprehensive classifications for our users in many industries.

By the way, we publish machine-readable files (TUF and CUF) for each new version. This makes ECLASS the only standard worldwide that enables automatic - because machine-readable - migrations.

Green light for digital battery passport

The Digital Battery Passport aims to promote sustainability and transparency of batteries, reduce environmental impact and support battery recycling. The new content of ECLASS 15.0 includes other important features in the new battery classes of the main group "accumulators, batteries".

• Certified energy state
• Initial self-discharge rate
• Rated capacity
• Decrease in capacity
• Initial capacity
• State of Charge (SoC)

Product information according to the EU Deforestation Regulation

In an effort to reduce global deforestation and forest degradation, agricultural commodities will be required to demonstrate that they have been produced without deforestation and forest degradation by the end of 2024. In addition to timber, the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) also covers soy, cocoa, coffee, cattle and rubber, as well as products made from them, such as furniture and seals.

The ECLASS Environmental Footprint Working Group has already integrated the relevant structures into the ECLASS standard as the standard Material Declaration aspect for the information required by the EU Regulation, so that they will be available to users from ECLASS Release 15.0. In addition to the product information required by the EU Regulation, the new Material Declaration standard aspect also includes information for products with critical ingredients.