QC/T 1159-2022Guidelines on evaluation of automobile industry green supply chain management (English PDF)

4.1 Basic requirements

4.1.1 The manufacturer shall have no major safety, environmental protection, quality or other accidents, in the past 3 years, AND make a self-declaration. It shall make commitments to the environmental requirements of stakeholders; meet the relevant commitment requirements at the same time. The commitments shall be available, through public channels such as websites.

4.1.2 The pollutant discharge status of manufacturer shall comply with the national and local pollutant discharge standards. The total pollutant discharge control shall meet the national and local pollutant discharge total control indicators.

4.1.3 The manufacturer shall establish and operate the environmental management system, energy management system, quality management system and, occupational health and safety management system respectively, in accordance with GB/T 24001, GB/T 23331, GB/T 19001/GB/T 18305, GB/T 28001.

4.1.4 The manufacturer shall establish a supplier management system, including but not limited to the improvement of supplier green certification, selection, audit, performance management, exit mechanism.

4.1.5 Manufacturers shall implement green supply chain management; formulate clear work objectives, ideas, plans, measures.

4.2 Evaluation indicators

4.2.1 Management strategy

4.2.1.1 Management policy documents, such as corporate development strategy planning and development concepts, shall include green development-related content.

4.2.1.2 Manufacturers shall formulate green supply chain management goals and implementation plans for the past three years.

4.2.1.3 Manufacturers shall have green supply chain management system documents, which shall at least include green supply chain management objectives and objects, management processes, division of responsibilities of various departments, reward and punishment measures, etc.

4.2.3 Green production

4.2.3.1 Automobile manufacturers shall have the corresponding process requirements and standard system documents for green design, such as requiring research on lightweight, easy disassembly and easy recycling, whole-vehicle modular design. During the research and development stage, they shall have relevant standards for green design products. The products shall meet the requirements of relevant policies and regulations, in terms of energy saving and consumption reduction. Auto parts manufacturers shall have the corresponding process requirements and standard system documents for green design, such as requiring research on lightweight, easy disassembly and easy recycling, modular design of components. It shall have green product-related standards in the research and development stage. In terms of energy saving and consumption reduction, control programs for energy saving and emission reduction shall be formulated.

4.2.3.2 Manufacturers shall actively carry out intelligent manufacturing. It shall actively participate in the construction of the intelligent manufacturing standard system of the automobile industry OR participate in the drafting of intelligent manufacturing standards in the automobile industry.

4.2.3.3 Hazardous substances in automobile products of automobile manufacturers shall comply with the provisions of GB/T 30512. The air quality inside the vehicle shall comply with the provisions of GB/T 27630. The use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl, polyphenol biphenyl in the parts and components of auto parts manufacturers shall comply with the provisions of GB/T 30512.

4.2.3.4 Automobile manufacturers shall meet the clean production evaluation requirements and have clean production review and evaluation filing documents. The auto parts manufacturers shall meet the clean production review evaluation and acceptance requirements; have clean production review and evaluation filing documents.

4.2.3.5 The design of automobile products shall consider the use of recycled raw materials, as well as automobile products containing recycled raw materials.

4.2.3.6 Manufacturers shall have green logistics management documents; conduct green logistics research; formulate low-carbon transportation plans, including but not limited to intra-site material transportation and automotive products.

4.2.4 Green consumption and recycling

4.2.4.1 Possess the concept of green marketing; carry out green product promotion in the automobile sales and service links; guide green consumption.

4.2.4.2 Manufacturers shall calculate the recycling ratio of packaging materials, according to Appendix A; the recycling ratio of packaging materials should be greater than or equal to 80%.

4.2.4.3 Automobile manufacturers shall build recycling outlets in the sales area, through self-construction, entrustment or joint construction, to recycle their scrapped vehicles and decommissioned power batteries. The automobile manufacturers shall calculate the coverage of recycling outlets, in accordance with Appendix A. The auto parts manufacturers shall provide support for the compilation of scrapped vehicle dismantling instruction manuals for category M1 vehicle manufacturers; the power battery manufacturers shall provide power battery code traceability and disassembly information for new energy vehicle manufacturers.

4.2.4.4 Automobile manufacturers shall calculate the ratio -- of the number of scrapped vehicles, which are recovered in the manufacturer's recycling system in the previous year TO the manufacturer's deregistration; auto parts manufacturers shall calculate the standard recovery rate of waste parts.

4.2.4.5 Automobile manufacturers shall prepare relevant manuals for the recycling and dismantling of scrapped vehicles, in accordance with GB/T 33460. New energy vehicle manufacturers shall prepare power battery dismantling instruction manuals, in accordance with relevant specifications; provide recycling and dismantling manuals to the recycling and dismantling enterprise, through third-party platforms in the industry. The auto parts manufacturers shall provide car manufacturers or superior suppliers with dismantling information, such as parts materials, weight, fastening methods, dismantling methods, recycling channels.

4.2.4.6 Manufacturers shall carry out research on the remanufacturing of automobile waste parts (including power batteries).

4.2.4.7 The actual recycling rate of the products, which are produced by the manufacturer, should reach 85%; the actual recycling rate should reach 95%.

4.2.5 Construction of green information platform and information disclosure

4.2.5.1 Manufacturers shall establish a green data collection and analysis platform, based on the supply chain, to support the environmental protection management and monitoring of suppliers. Manufacturers shall rely on the platform, to complete the data collection of automotive materials AND realize the control of hazardous substances in the entire industry chain. Manufacturers should rely on the platform to complete the collection of information, such as energy resource consumption and pollutant discharge. Manufacturers should rely on the platform to complete the information collection, such as supplier's energy resource consumption and pollutant discharge.

4.2.5.2 Manufacturers shall disclose information on energy conservation and emission reduction, specifically including but not limited to the use of toxic and hazardous substances, energy resource utilization efficiency, pollutant emissions, carbon emission reductions, product recycling rates.

4.2.5.3 Automobile manufacturers shall disclose information on scrapped vehicle recycling service outlets and traction battery recycling service outlets. The auto parts manufacturers shall assist automobile manufacturers to publish dismantling manuals and other relevant information.

4.2.5.4 Manufacturers shall disclose information on the proportion of green suppliers, measures to improve environmental performance jointly with suppliers, implementation results of joint environmental performance improvement with suppliers.

4.2.5.5 The manufacturer shall issue a corporate social responsibility report, which shall include content related to green development.