EIME

Core Features

EIME is built around product-level life-cycle assessment rather than spend-based corporate emissions accounting. Its approach is closer to activity- and model-based environmental evaluation: users describe products, processes, materials, and life-cycle stages, then use EIME’s databases and impact indicators to support eco-design, declarations, and product environmental communication. Its core features include:

• EIME Compass — A simplified, results-oriented version of EIME introduced for users who need faster product environmental-impact simulations, especially at early design or screening stages.

• EIME — The main web application for detailed LCA work, including product and service impact quantification, eco-design analysis, LCA reporting, and environmental declarations requiring third-party review.

• EIME API — A programming interface for connecting EIME with other software or third-party systems, supporting automated LCA workflows, large-scale processing, traceability, and structured outputs such as Excel or JSON files.

• Environmental declaration support — EIME supports work linked to PEP ecopassport, FDES, EPD System, PEF/OEF, environmental labelling, and other communication formats used to document product environmental performance.

• Life-cycle modelling and impact analysis — Users can model life-cycle stages, select indicator sets, calculate environmental impacts, and analyse how impacts are distributed across a product or service system.

• Database and sector coverage — CODDE maintains EIME’s associated database and highlights updates including Ecoinvent availability, IEA data, and sector datasets for areas such as microelectronics and digital services.

Closing Insights

EIME is part of Bureau Veritas LCIE Department CODDE, a French LCA and eco-design specialist with more than 25 years of work around product environmental assessment. Its context is important: EIME is not only a modelling tool for internal sustainability teams, but also sits close to France’s product-declaration ecosystem. That makes it especially relevant for manufacturers of electrical, electronic, HVAC, and construction-related products that need product-level environmental data for French or European market access, including foreign suppliers selling into projects where FDES, PEP ecopassport, INIES, or RE2020-related documentation may be requested.

The platform’s outlook is tied less to broad ESG reporting and more to the growing demand for reliable product environmental information at commercial-reference level. Schneider Electric documentation refers to standardized EIME software in product environmental profile work, while ACOME discusses EIME in connection with PEP ecopassport calculations. Recent additions such as EIME Compass and EIME API suggest that CODDE is trying to serve both early-stage screening users and organisations needing more automated, repeatable LCA workflows.

Pricing is quotation-based, with a 30-day trial available; CODDE also offers training, declaration support, and third-party verification services.