Under development - Industrial sensors (c-PCR under PCR 2024:06)

Open consultation of the draft PCR took place 2025-06-10 until 2025-08-10. Now the PCR is being updated based on the open consultation comments received.

The c-PCR is expected to be published in Q4 2025.

Dates are preliminary and subject to change.

For questions on the c-PCR, please contact the PCR moderator Leo Breedveld, 2B Srl

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This will not be a standalone PCR but a complementary PCR (c-PCR) to the main PCR for electronic and electric equipment and electronic components (non-construction) that is under development. The c-PCR will provide additional rules and specifications for the specified product category.

The c-PCR shall be used together with the main PCR to assess the environmental performance of Industrial sensors and the declaration of this performance by an EPD.

The c-PCR will cover product category under the UN CPC 4825 Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases except navigational, hydrological or meteorological instruments and appliances, gas or liquid supply meters, and automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like, or for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light.

“A sensor in process instrumentation is a device that detects and measures a physical parameter, such as temperature, pressure, flow, level or chemical composition, and converts it into an electrical signal that can be read by an instrument or control system.” (source: Process Instrumentation and Sensors - Control Engineering; www.controleng.com).

This definition excludes navigational, hydrological and meteorological instruments and appliances.

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