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The local framework
- Italy governs the environmental impact of construction in two complementary ways.
- On one side, national law (via the Public Procurement Code) imposes minimum environmental criteria, the CAM, on all projects financed with public money.
- This concerns many building materials and equipment (concrete, insulation, piping, heating/ventilation, etc.), and from 2026 this obligation will apply across the whole of Italy.
- On the other side, there is an assessment system called the Protocollo ITACA, which measures the environmental performance of a building;
- whether it is mandatory or merely incentive-based varies from region to region.
- In short, Italy therefore combines an increasingly strict national rule for public procurement with a patchwork of regional rules that, together, push the building sector towards more sustainable practices.
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What it means for you
- To access public procurement and many regional markets, an EPD is a prerequisite.
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The programme to target
EPD Italy
The EPD Italy programme operator is the local alternative for producing your EPDs.