European Union Policy Developments Related to Ecodesign, Green Claims, and Eco-labeling : Implications for Voluntary Circular Labeling Initiatives

Summary, in English

The European Union (EU) has recently presented several new legal proposals for promoting ecodesign and product labeling. The aim is to harmonize national practices and rules in the EU, to regulate issues like product lifetime and repairability in a more comprehensive way, to introduce new tools like digital product passports, and to introduce labeling schemes for repairability and durability. In parallel, the EU has proposed rules to regulate green claims and ecolabeling schemes to effectively address greenwashing. In this paper, we outline these rules, and discuss the challenges emerging for new eco-labeling schemes. We further discuss the challenges for a proposed new scheme for circular products: Certified to LAST.

• Author: Karolina Vikingsson; Carl Dalhammar; Leonidas Milios
• Department/s: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo); Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC); The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
• Publishing year: 2025-01-01
• Language: English
• Pages: 245-259
• Publication/Series: EcoDesign for Circular Value Creation : Volume I
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9068-5_16
• Document type: Book chapter
• Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
• Topic: Environmental Management; Environmental Studies in Social Sciences
• Keywords: Ecodesign regulation; Product labeling; Product lifetime; Product regulation
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 9789819790678; ISBN: 9789819790685