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Ref : EIC 230/4/1

28 December 2000

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 183/00

European Union (EU)* :Revised Community Eco-label Award Scheme

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 154/2000 of 23 October 2000, the European Commission (EC) has adopted a Commission Decision (the Decision) to establish the application and annual fees for the Community eco-label. A copy of the Commission Decision is attached  (pdf format) to this Circular for reference.
 

  1. The Decision establishes the application and annual fees of the Community eco-label. The application fee relates to the cost of processing the application of the eco-label while the annual fee relates to the use of the awarded eco-label. For the application fee, the EC has set a minimum and maximum fees of EUR(Euro) 300 and EUR 1,300 respectively. The annual fee will be 0.15% of the annual volume of sales within the Community of the product awarded the eco-label. The minimum and maximum annual fees per product group per applicant are set at EUR 500 and EUR 25,000 respectively. For both the application fee and annual fee, a reduction of 25% is provided for small and medium enterprises in the Community and also product manufacturers as well as service providers of developing countries.

ENQUIRIES

  1. For enquiries about the contents of this Circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5684.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

(Miss Helen YUNG)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry

*: The EU Member States are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.



Note : While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.