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European Parliament adopts new rules on green claims


Two EU Directives Aim to Shape European Legal Framework for ...

The European legislator has initiated two directives with the intent of clarifying and unifying the EU's legal framework on environmental claims.

EU Adopts Law Banning Misleading Environmental Claims - Impakter

The European Council has adopted a new directive to protect consumers from misleading environmental claims.

Green Claims Directive: EU to set strict minimum criteria for ...

Enforcement of the proposal is up to the Member States. They can either choose to adopt the new rules on penalties set out in the Directive or ...

Carbon Removal in the EU Green Claims Directive

It establishes minimum requirements on the substantiation and communication of voluntary environmental claims and labels that are not otherwise banned under the ...

EU tackles greenwashing: "Empowering Consumers Directive" and ...

An environmental claim is defined as "a message or representation which is not mandatory under Union or national law, in any form (...) in the ...

EU's Proposed Green Claims Directive: Covington experts explain

The proposal is the latest response to increased consumer concerns about the reliability of environmental marketing claims. A 2020 European ...

EU Parliament adopts stricter requirements for environmental and ...

Introduction of new definitions for green claims by the EmpCo Directive · The EmpCo Directive is primarily concerned with generic environmental ...

EU Green Claims Directive: What Businesses Need To Know

Enter the forthcoming EU Green Claims Directive, a milestone piece of legislation poised to stem the flow of greenwashing with universal ...

EU Parliament gives final approval to new rules to combat ... - Eunews

... approves the EU directive that will improve product labelling and ban the use of misleading environmental claims. Rapporteur Biljana Borzan ...

Green Claims Directive proposal: current developments - YouTube

... European Parliament adopted its position, with further changes and several restrictions to climate-related claims, in plenary on 12 March ...

Green claims: protecting consumers from being misled | 11-03-2024

Following a debate on Monday, MEPs will adopt on Tuesday their position on new rules to verify and pre-approve green marketing claims to ...

From greenwashing to green trust: the state of European ... - illuminem

From greenwashing to green trust: the state of European environmental claims regulation ... The European Parliament's Committee vote on the Green ...

EU proposes Green Claims Directive to combat greenwashing

The new directive would complement 2022 proposals to amend EU consumer protection laws to tackle unfair commercial practices that mislead ...

Council of the EU adopts position on Green Claim directive

In March, the EU parliament went further, demanding a ban on designations judged by experts to be groundless. This week, it was the Council of ...

EU Parliament signs off on anti-greenwashing legislation - edie

Coupled with the directive on green claims is a new requirement for manufacturers and retailers to provide customers with information on the ...

Green Claims Directive: State-of-play & Interplay with Packaging Rules

MEPs agreed that any new environmental marketing claims, such as “biodegradable” or “less polluting", should be verified before their use and ...

Final adoption of the directive against greenwashing and misleading ...

On 20 February the Council of the European Union finally gave the green light to a new Directive whose main objective is to protect ...

Cosmetics Europe welcomes the Council's General Approach on the ...

The European cosmetics industry fully supports the objectives of the GCD and the recently adopted Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition ...

EU Green Claims Directive: European Parliament Committees adopt ...

Existing schemes may continue but, to control their proliferation, new public environmental labelling schemes will not be allowed unless ...

European Parliament adopts Green Claims Directive first reading ...

Companies that break the rules may face penalties, like temporary exclusion from public procurement tenders, revenue loss and fines starting at ...