CEN/TC 466/WG 3 - Guidance on implementing CDFG

This document specifies requirements and guidelines for the hardware and
software used for digitalization of product information of circular designed
fishing gear and aquaculture equipment containing plastics.

This document specifies the requirements for the user manuals that accompany circular designed fishing gear and aquaculture equipment. The document provides general principles for a designer to determine the scope of the circular design of fishing gear and aquaculture
equipment for a particular item of fishing gear or its components and to develop user manuals, lists of spare parts, and maps of locations where damaged fishing gear can be returned and prepared for reuse.
The document specifies the requirements for gear/polymer labelling and marking, to ensure traceability of fishing gear components.

This document specifies the general requirements and provides the reader guidance, recommendations and requirements for changing from a linear economy to a circular one by focusing on the general principles of circular design for fishing gear and aquaculture equipment, situating them in the current context of the European circular economy.
This document also specifies the stakeholders and their relationships with each other in a general context, as well as for the different parts of the series of standards to which this part belongs.