Fields of activity

Primary task and objective

The main task of GEV is the pro­mo­tion of con­sumer pro­tec­tion, occu­pa­tion­al safety and envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion in the field of build­ing chem­ic­als and adhes­ives. The asso­ci­ation pur­sues an open inform­a­tion policy and sup­ports cross-vendor cooper­a­tion with all part­ners in the industry. Any pro­gress towards a healthy indoor cli­mate can only be achieved if all parties involved pull togeth­er. Con­sumers, con­tract­ors and man­u­fac­tur­ers must take part in this pro­cess and jointly work towards high-qual­ity low-emis­sion products.

The first and fore­most goal of GEV was to give the mar­ket a tool that allows users an impar­tial assess­ment of the avail­able products and enables them to com­pare products regard­ing their VOC emis­sion char­ac­ter­ist­ics. For this pur­pose the EMICODE® clas­si­fic­a­tion sys­tem was cre­ated.

Licensing

Once a man­u­fac­turer applies for licens­ing one of his products, it is tested for its emis­sion beha­vi­or by an inde­pend­ent ana­lyt­ic­al labor­at­ory accord­ing to a defined, stand­ard­ized test meth­od. Based on the sci­en­tific­ally determ­ined meas­ure­ment data, the man­u­fac­turer is gran­ted a license that assigns the respect­ive EMICODE® class to his product.

This license then entitles the man­u­fac­turer to label and pro­mote his product with the trade­mark-pro­tec­ted EMICODE® seal. Man­u­fac­tur­ers whose products bear this label under­take to man­u­fac­ture these products under qual­ity-con­trolled con­di­tions so that they com­ply with the EMICODE® spe­cific­a­tions at all times.

Quality assurance

Bet­ter safe than sorry. True to this motto, GEV as the super­vis­ory body mon­it­ors the licensed product claims from the very start.

Without the man­u­fac­tur­ers’ know­ledge, EMICODE®- licensed products (chosen at ran­dom) are pur­chased in the free mar­ket and sub­jec­ted to rig­or­ous long-term tests by inter­na­tion­ally recog­nized test­ing insti­tutes to determ­ine their emis­sion beha­vi­or.

Any non-com­pli­ance with the pre­scribed lim­it val­ues is severely pun­ished. Man­u­fac­tur­ers whose products do not com­ply with the EMICODE® qual­ity claim must pay the costs of test­ing. In addi­tion, they are obliged to rem­edy defi­cien­cies in pro­duc­tion and to resub­mit the products from new batches to new tests car­ried out in the same way.  Repeated non-com­pli­ance can lead to with­draw­al of the license and, in the worst case, loss of all EMICODE® cer­ti­fic­a­tion rights.

The mon­it­or­ing res­ults of recent years show that checks are the only way to main­tain the neces­sary dis­cip­line required to pro­duce optim­um product qual­ity. To this day, EMICODE® is the only VOC label on the mar­ket that is sub­ject to reg­u­lar and strict qual­ity con­trols, thus offer­ing the highest pos­sible con­sumer pro­tec­tion as regards indoor air hygiene and healthy liv­ing.

Fields of activity

Primary task and objective

The main task of GEV is the pro­mo­tion of con­sumer pro­tec­tion, occu­pa­tion­al safety and envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion in the field of build­ing chem­ic­als and adhes­ives. The asso­ci­ation pur­sues an open inform­a­tion policy and sup­ports cross-vendor cooper­a­tion with all part­ners in the industry.

Any pro­gress towards a healthy indoor cli­mate can only be achieved if all parties involved pull togeth­er. Con­sumers, con­tract­ors and man­u­fac­tur­ers must take part in this pro­cess and jointly work towards high-qual­ity low-emis­sion products.

The first and fore­most goal of GEV was to give the mar­ket a tool that allows users an impar­tial assess­ment of the avail­able products and enables them to com­pare products regard­ing their VOC emis­sion char­ac­ter­ist­ics. For this pur­pose, the EMICODE® clas­si­fic­a­tion sys­tem was cre­ated.

Licensing

Once a man­u­fac­turer applies for licens­ing one of his products, it is tested for its emis­sion beha­vi­or by an inde­pend­ent ana­lyt­ic­al labor­at­ory accord­ing to a defined, stand­ard­ized test meth­od. Based on the sci­en­tific­ally determ­ined meas­ure­ment data, the man­u­fac­turer is gran­ted a license that assigns the respect­ive EMICODE® class to his product.

This license then entitles the man­u­fac­turer to label and pro­mote his product with the trade­mark-pro­tec­ted EMICODE® seal. Man­u­fac­tur­ers whose products bear this label under­take to man­u­fac­ture these products under qual­ity-con­trolled con­di­tions so that they com­ply with the EMICODE® spe­cific­a­tions at all times.

Quality assurance

Bet­ter safe than sorry. True to this motto, GEV as the super­vis­ory body mon­it­ors the licensed product claims from the very start.

Without the man­u­fac­tur­ers’ know­ledge, EMICODE®-licensed products (chosen at ran­dom) are pur­chased in the free mar­ket and sub­jec­ted to rig­or­ous long-term tests by inter­na­tion­ally recog­nized test­ing insti­tutes to determ­ine their emis­sion beha­vi­or.

Any non-com­pli­ance with the pre­scribed lim­it val­ues is severely pun­ished. Man­u­fac­tur­ers whose products do not com­ply with the EMICODE® qual­ity claim must pay the costs of test­ing. In addi­tion, they are obliged to rem­edy defi­cien­cies in pro­duc­tion and to resub­mit the products from new batches to new tests car­ried out in the same way. Repeated non-com­pli­ance can lead to with­draw­al of the license and, in the worst case, loss of all EMICODE® cer­ti­fic­a­tion rights.

The mon­it­or­ing res­ults of recent years show that checks are the only way to main­tain the neces­sary dis­cip­line required to pro­duce optim­um product qual­ity. To this day, EMICODE® is the only VOC label on the mar­ket that is sub­ject to reg­u­lar and strict qual­ity con­trols, thus offer­ing the highest pos­sible con­sumer pro­tec­tion as regards indoor air hygiene and healthy liv­ing.

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