National Experimentation on the Environmental Labelling of Consumer Products
Focuses on optimising conditions for implementing environmental communication: availability to consumers of the environmental characteristics of products, full-scale testing in a variety of market sectors of methods for conveying the information right along the whole production and distribution chain, initial lessons learned concerning reactions from consumers and consumer protection or environmental protection groups, etc.
This French initiative is based on the Grenelle II project. Below is the link to a call for applications for a national experimentation. The call closed 31st of December 2010, but gives a thorough explanation of where the initiative currently stands and its background.
In short, a national experimentation concerning environmental labeling of consumer products in France will start from June 1st 2011 for at least a year. Companies from various industries were able to submit projects on a voluntary basis for inclusion in the national experimentation. The national experimentation will be led by the Ministry for Sustainable Development (MEEDDM) in close collaboration with the DGCCRF (French office of fair trading, consumer affairs and fraud control).
The objectives of the national experimentation are to evaluate the feasibility and the optimal conditions for making this environmental information on products available to consumers and also to test the means of transmission of information along the entire chain of production and distribution right down to the end consumer on a large scale and across a variety of market segments.
The results of the separate projects and the national experimentation will be evaluated from Q2 2012 onwards.
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Other information
Other related documents that have been released are:
X30-323 BP
Title: General principles for environmental labeling products of mass consumption
Index: X30-323
Status: Repository of best practices
Second draw for the French version 11/2009
A summary of the document can be found at: http://affichage-environnemental.afnor.org/actualites/resume-bpx30-323/resume-bpx30-323
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