Green Premium

2/3 of our products’ revenues achieved with Green Premium products

29.9% of our products’ revenues were achieved with Green Premium products at the end of the first quarter 2011.

Schneider Electric defines a Green Premium product by the following four criteria:

An environmental declaration (or Product Environmental Profile);
An end-of-life instruction guide;
A list of the substances of concern specified in the European REACH Directive;
The product does not contain levels of lead, chromium, cadmium, mercury, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) above the thresholds specified by the European RoHS directive.

Schneider Electric’s objectives:

be transparent with respect to the environmental impacts of the products it sells to its customers;
optimise product end-of-life recycling;
restrict the use of substances of concern.

This progress plan is a continuation of the previous 2005-2008 plan which aimed to publish 120 product environmental profiles.

Sponsor Pilot	Sustainable development department Sustainable offer director
Scope	Business departments responsible for product development. The business entities have pilot groups which are responsible for achieving the objectives for their entities.
Calculation	(Total sales of products meeting the four Green Premium criteria) / (total sales) The reference year is 2008.
Reporting	Quarterly