Material and Product certifications in LEED EBOM

I have received a couple of emails and inquiries from especially European project teams in regards to the standards referenced in LEED EBOM for Green Cleaning. So here is the current situation. In order to meet the requirements of "Green Cleaning—Purchase of Sustainable Cleaning Products and Materials" your cleaning products will have to meet either Green Seal or environmental choice CCD standards. Both are certification common in North America, but uncommon international. This results in the fact the international projects (non US, or Canada) can not apply any of those credits (I know that from talking to colleges in Europe and my own projects). I have checked the new ACPs as well as LEED Interpretations and there is nothing to help with this issue. Also the draft of LEED 2012 does not address that issue. So at the moment there is no solution. However I have found one work around for projects with ionized tap water in lieu of chemical cleaning solutions. see credit interpretation ruling 11/1/2011 ID# 10141 This is also incorporated in the new LEED 2012 draft. Nevertheless there is a growing demand for LEED EBOM on the international market and for quiet a few credits there is no alternative approach for international projects. So now you may say, how about showing equivalence of European standards like Ecolabel, Blauer Engel, ... with Green Seal or CCD. or even the products itself. This is very comprehensive, expensive and for a certification of operations and maintenance also something that can change very quick with products selection. This is the reason I keep hearing, when asking why do you not do that. Here is another problem often mentioned by the US-certification representatives, the requirements in Green Seal do not translate one to one into for instance the European Eco Label. Some contents are not covered, others are measured differently. This is also due to the fact that Europe as a lot of regulations already that prohibit the use of certain chemicals or limit others. My personal opinion in this matter is that this needs a solution proposed by the USGBC written in the LEED 2012. It's costly and not maintainable for project teams to work on showing compliance of one standard vs another. I hope to hear more from other projects teams in regards to this matter or even solutions and ideas.