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12 June 2014

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 566/2014

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

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 565/2014 dated 12 June 2014, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Decision to prolong the period of validity of the ecological criteria, as well as the related assessment and verification requirements for the award of the EU Eco-label with regard to soil improvers, growing media, televisions, wooden furniture, notebook computers, light sources and personal computers to 31 December 2015. Details are set out in Commission Decision 2014/336/EU, which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2014_168_R_0014&from=EN

ENQUIRIES

2.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Anita WONG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.