Because of their large companies and/or customers’ pressure to comply with the new regulatory framework, around 10,000 European SMEs operating in the field of electric, electronic and/or automotive industries have to face increasing information work on their supplies environmental characteristics, which they are totally unprepared and not instrumented for.
To avoid European SMEs to suffer from a zero value added reporting work as well as from customers top-down environmental and/or industrial choices, ECODIS offer them to take advantage of this new policy context. In fact through ECODIS, SMEs have a genuine opportunity to develop their own product environmental improvement strategy and to ecodesign their products in a life cycle/supply chain approach.

Through ECODIS, SMEs are provided with an innovative Ecodesign tool:
1. Adequate interactive and shared decision aid systems,
2. Appropriate methodology: (POEMS), Product Oriented Environmental Management Systems.

ECODIS leading IAGs, FPA (EDIT* program) and FIEEC (EIME* tool) have collaborated with major leading companies producing automotive equipment (FPA) and electric-electronic appliances (FIEEC) to develop ecodesign tools since 1999.
Within ECODIS in collaboration with the others IAGs, FPA and FIEEC have decided:


1. To exploit the synergies of existing national systems: total past investments of 4 millions €.
2. To adapt national existing ecodesign systems to current European SMEs’ needs and capabilities,
3. To complement existing national systems with value added innovative functionalities,
4. To share results between IAGs operating on similar and complementary professional sectors,
5. To train SMEs’ management and technical staff,
6. To disseminate ECODIS results to the largest European SMEs community and to major stakeholders.

To this end, ECODIS has built a consortium around major European IAGs and a strong European SMEs core group, which will work in collaboration with experienced and highly qualified European RTD actors.