EU Ecolabel

Description

EU Ecolabel is a voluntary environmental labelling system. The rules are laid down by "Regulation (EC) No 66/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the EU Ecolabel". EUEcolabelawards products and services which have a lower environmental impact than other products in the same group, enabling consumers to recognise eco-friendly products(not including food and medicine). Objective of the system is to label products which meet European environmental an ethical objective, such as the impact on climate change, nature and biodiversity, energy and resource consumption, generation of waste, reducing animal testing, compliance with ethical and social standards etc.

Source link
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ecolabel/

Full reference
Regulation (EC) No 66/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the EU Ecolabel

More information about properties

Policy
Year	2009
Policy area	Product labelling and packaging
Affected activity
Affected actors	Processor, Wholesaler, Retailer, Consumer, Producer/Beekeeper "Producer/Beekeeper" is not in the list of possible values (Consumer, Landowner/land manager, Picker/harvester/hunter, Processor, Producer/beekeeper, Retailer, SME, Wholesaler) for this property.
Products	Bark/cork
Subject	NWFP
Promoter/initiator
Zone
Countries	European countries
Regions (NUTS 2)
Focus on NWFP
Document category
Instrument type
Legal status	Non-binding
Geographical scope	International