EU Ecolabel for food and feed products – feasibility study

<div style="text-align: justify;">The EU Ecolabel Regulation has recently been revised. Article 6.5 of the new Regulation provides that before developing EU Ecolabel criteria for food and feed products the Commission should undertake a study exploring feasibility of establishing reliable criteria. <br><br>For that purpose a study has been competitively tendered and awarded to Oakdene Hollins, a UK based consultancy that will lead the project together with the University of Göttingen’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development and the Swiss Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL).<br><br>The objectives of the study are: <br><br>1.to assess the feasibility of establishing reliable Ecolabel criteria covering environmental performance during the whole life cycle of food, drink and feed products, including the products of fishing and aquaculture,<br><br>2.to assess the added value and impacts of establishing such criteria, and implementing the scheme, in the various sectors, and the impact this could have on organically certified products,<br><br>3.to consider, in the assessments under (1) and (2), the option of limiting the scope of the Ecolabel to organically certified products (where applicable).<br><br>A stakeholder workshop took place on 26 May 2011. The minutes of the workshop are available <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ecolabel/about_ecolabel/pdf/Ecolabellin… final report of the feasibility study is available <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ecolabel/about_ecolabel/pdf/Ecolabel%20… EU<br><br>