We are a manufacturer working with a program operator in Europe to develop environmental product declarations. We are looking for clarification on applicability of Option 1: Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) that requires approved products to be third party verified (Type III) with external verification in which the manufacturer is explicitly recognized as the participant by the program operator. The EPDs that we have developed for our products with the program operator meet all LEED criteria for Type III product specific EPDs as defined by ISO standards ISO 14025, 14040 and 14044 and are consistent with PCR standard EN 15804 with the exception of being covered by a third party verification that includes external verification. Per ISO 14025 or EN 15804, there is no requirement for the product declarations to be ‘externally verified’. Our EPDs follow an independent review process per Section 8: Verification of ISO 14025 standard and includes verification of conformance to ISO 14025, 14040 and 14044 as well as PCR standards. We are looking for published clarification on eligibility of independently reviewed product-specific EPDs in LEED v4.