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Homologaciones técnicas

Acreditaciones oficiales

✓ANF AC is the Validation Authority, and together with @Firma (Government of Spain), are the only entities authorized to issue validations that determine the validity status of the certificates issued by the different hierarchies of ANF AC.

✓The IETF approved way to verify the validity of a certificate is the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).

✓The OCSP service for electronic signature validation at source is
a high availability on-line service.
It complies with the provisions of Art. 32.1 of Regulation (EU) 910/2014; in an automated way it includes the advanced electronic signature of ANF AC in its capacity as Validation Authority.

Cost savings

Administrative paper management. Cost estimate based on a direct product cost of 4 euros per pack of 500 units of 80-gram, DIN A-4 size paper.

Estimated calculation based on: Cost of product, transport, storage, printing, archiving, handling, destruction.
Approximate estimate €0.5.

In the case of paper invoices, burofax, notary, etc. the costs rise exponentially, reaching up to 10 times the value of administrative management.

For example, all published studies estimate the savings from a digitisation process of invoices to be at least:
─ Invoice issued is 2,85 euros
─ Invoice received of 2.86

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) energy consumption footprint

Objective: to determine the energy required in paper production.

Inventory analysis: The paper process is intensive in the consumption of electricity and steam.
The paper process is intensive in the consumption of electricity and steam.
Approximately 4,000 kWh of energy (77% from fossil fuels) is used to produce 1 tonne of paper.
The electricity mix in 2010 is 181 g CO2/kWh.
The electricity mix for 2010 is 181 g CO2/kWh. CO2 emission factor attributable to electricity supply known as electricity mix (g CO2/kWh).

Source info: Generalitat de Catalunya -Guia práctica.

Environmental impact assessment: Spain is a producer of paper pulp, accounting for more than 10% of the total energy consumed by the whole industry in Spain, which is more than 14,000 ktoe. For energy production in Spain, fossil fuels have covered more than 77 %, nuclear more than 12 %. And 11 % of renewables.
─ 1 ktoe equals 11,630,000 kW-h
─ 1 ktoe is 1000 tonnes of oil equivalent.

Source: Government of Spain

Interpretation: Each sheet of white paper in its usual format 80 grams DIN A4 size weighs 5 grams (not including the associated shrinkage). Therefore, each sheet requires:
─ 0.0154 kWh of energy, which is equivalent to
─ 0,0462 kg of oil, which in turn represents
─ 2.7874 g CO2.

Steam generation is not included in this analysis as there is no data on steam generation produced.

Environmental impact
The generation of electricity using fossil fuels generates carbon dioxide, which is one of the main causes of the greenhouse effect.

Water vapour (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4), and ozone (O3) are the main greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere (Kyoto Protocol).

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) environmental degradation footprint

Objective: to determine the environmental degradation caused by paper production.

Inventory analysis: In order to make the paper white, it is necessary to use various additives such as chlorine dioxide, a product that does not exist naturally in the environment and requires other production processes, the effect of which is not included in this analysis. This product dissolves in the water which, once used, is discharged into the environment, causing serious polluting effects.

Environmental impact assessment: Producing one tonne of white paper requires about 10 litres of chlorine dioxide, and 10 kg of talc per tonne of paper pulp.

Source info: paper industry Kay Teschke and Paul Demers)

Interpretation: Each sheet of white paper in its usual 80 grams DIN A4 size weighs 5 grams (not including the associated shrinkage). Therefore, each sheet requires 0.05 grams of talc and 0.05 grams of chlorine dioxide.

Environmental impact
The so-called organochlorine compounds (more than a thousand different ones) are formed when wood pulp reacts with chlorine. Of this chemical cocktail, only about 300 are actually known.

– The persistence of organochlorines over time is enormous. Living beings do not have the means to excrete them and so their concentration increases as they move through the food chain. Any release of chlorine into the environment, in liquid or solid form, such as some plastics (PVC), also causes this phenomenon.

– A number of organochlorine compounds are particularly dangerous: the so-called dioxins, the most potent poison ever invented. Their toxicity is 70,000 times greater than that of cyanide. A milk carton without an aluminium inner protection can contaminate the contents of the carton with dioxins, which is why some countries, such as New Zealand, have banned them.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) water footprint

Objective: to determine the loss of oxygen necessary for human life through the production of paper.

Inventory analysis: One tree provides the oxygen consumed by 3 people in a day. Every year, 4 billion trees are cut down worldwide to make paper.

Environmental impact assessment: Producing one tonne of virgin paper requires a minimum of 474,000 kg of water.

Source info: paper industry Kay Teschke and Paul Demers)

Interpretation: Each sheet of white paper in its usual format 80 grams DIN A4 size weighs 5 grams (not including the associated shrinkage). Therefore, each sheet of paper assumes the oxygen consumed by 0.000735 parts of 3 people.

Environmental impact
The greenhouse effect is an unquestionable reality; the current felling of trees represents a loss of oxygen generation equivalent to almost four times the world’s population.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) water footprint

Objective: To determine the freshwater consumption required to produce paper.

Inventory analysis: It takes 324 litres of water to manufacture one kilo of pulp paper.
In addition, a kraft pulp bleaching mill with a production of 1,000 tonnes per day consumes more than 150 million litres of water per day, which is discharged as highly polluted water.

Environmental impact assessment: Producing one tonne of virgin paper requires a minimum of 474,000 kg of water.

Source info: paper industry Kay Teschke and Paul Demers)

Interpretation: Each sheet of white paper in its usual format 80 grams DIN A4 size weighs 5 grams (not including the associated shrinkage). Therefore, each sheet assumes a minimum consumption of 2.42 litres of water.
Environmental impact
Although the Earth is known as the Blue Planet because 71% of its surface area is occupied by water, the truth is that only 3.5% is freshwater, and only 0.007% is accessible to the population. It is a resource that is unevenly distributed, poorly managed and increasingly polluted.

The UN has identified access to this natural resource as one of the biggest problems facing the world.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) ecological footprint

ISO 14044:2006 Environmental Management Reference Macro

Objective: to determine the impact of paper use on deforestation.

Inventory analysis: Global paper consumption is 268 million tonnes per year. Every year, 4 billion trees are cut down worldwide to make paper, which represents one third of the global harvest.

Environmental impact assessment: Producing one tonne of virgin paper requires 2 to 3.5 tonnes of trees, i.e. an average of 28 to 49 trees (depending on size).

Source info: paper industry

Interpretation: Each sheet of white paper in its usual format 80 grams DIN A4 size weighs 5 grams (not including the associated waste). Therefore, each sheet assumes a minimum consumption of 0.000245 parts of a tree.

Environmental impact:
– Deforestation of the planet causes the greenhouse effect, climate change, droughts, fires and erosion.
– In the last fifty years, the world has lost an area of forest equivalent to that of China and India combined.
– The Amazon rainforest is disappearing at the rate of a football pitch per second. If we point out that this type of forest is home to between 50 and 90% of the planet’s biological diversity, then we have an idea of what its loss means.
– In Extremadura (Spain), in the years from 1950 to 1980, a quarter of the holm oak forests were lost, equivalent to approximately nine million trees. Although it is now forbidden to cut holm oaks, recovery is difficult due to pests, drought and overgrazing.

The tree is more than just a wood factory:
– It is the best solar collector: it uses the sun’s energy, which is free and non-polluting.
– Fertilises the soil: inert materials, minerals, etc. are transformed into organic matter.
– It transforms itself into compost (leaves, fruits, roots and all of it when it dies).
– It provides food and shelter for forest animals.