The Secretariat recommends the following three dates to be displayed in an EPD:
- Publication date (sometimes referred to as "issue date" or "registration date"). This date is set as the date when the company submit the EPD registration. In case the documentation is incomplete or contains errors, the publication date on the EPD should be updated to correspond to the date of the final resubmission for registration. This date remains the same even with later updates of the EPD.
- Revision date. In case of a new version of an already-published EPD, this date should be set corresponding to the date when the updated EPD is submitted for publication. It should not be included in case of a first EPD edition.
- Validity date. This date is set during verification and is normally five years starting from the version date. Shorter validity periods are also accepted, for example if decided by the EPD owner. For validity dates in case of updates of EPDs, see the GPI.
As of GPI 5.0.0, “publication date” and “revision date” are replaced by “version date”.
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