Are the ISO 14000 standards 'organization' or 'product' oriented?

The standards in the ISO 14000 series fall into two major groups: organization-oriented standards, and product-oriented standards.

The organization-oriented standards provide comprehensive guidance for establishing, maintaining and evaluating an environmental management system (EMS). They are also concerned with other organization-wide environmental systems and functions.

The product-oriented standards are concerned with determining the environmental impacts of products and services over their life cycles, and with environmental labels and declarations. These standards will help an organization gather information it needs in order to support its planning and decisions, and to communicate specific environmental information to consumers and other interested parties.

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