AOB 1. Finland: question on Printed Paper Deinking test/cover A printing house, which has earlier gained a licence to print an EU ecolabelled annual report wants now to make similar printed product, but with different cover. The cover is made of offset printed EU ecolabelled paper. Do they have to show the de‐inkability of the cover with tests? (When they applied for the licence first time they did the de‐inkability tests to the product with different cover.) How to interpret criterion 3 (Deinkability)? 1) the cover shall be de‐inkable if it is made of paper (and that shall be proved by tests) 2) the cover shall be easily removable if it is made of some other material (no de‐inkability tests to the cover) 3 coating with varnishes and laminating, including polyethene and/or polyethene/polypropylene is allowed for covers of books (but what about de‐inkability tests?) Is there somewhere a list of laboratories which perform de‐inkability tests in Europe?

AOB 2. Finland: Russian translation problems A Finnish printing house, which has the right to print EU Ecolabelled publications, has now a Russian customer. The customer wants to have EU Ecolabel on the printed products he orders. Now we have some questions concerning the text which shall appear on the product. ‘Please collect used paper for recycling’. It should be in Russian. Or is it not possible to use Russian, because it is not an official EU-language? Should the text be in English instead? If it is possible to use Russian, we would like to know which font should be used. Is it possible to use Verdana if you write the Cyrillic alphabet? Or should the printing house use some other font? And what about the translation of the text ‘Please collect used paper for recycling’? Is there an official Russian version or can the printer make an own translation?

AOB 3. Germany: Guidelines for the use of the Logo updated. From nov 2013 CB Forum Minutes: Use of the EU Ecolabel logo for marketing purposes (Germany) Germany reminded that the EU Ecolabel logo needs to be accompanied with the licence number in order to ensure the integrity of the label. Also for marketing purposes (website, brochures, etc.) the licence number should always be near to the EU Ecolabel logo. Conclusion Germany will propose modifications to be made to existing Logo guidelines and send them to the EC (Carla). Logo guidelines updated.

AOB 4. Germany : ECAT and the excell file If the addition of new products into ECAT with the provided excel file works, should we add the missing products automatically or do we have to ask the companies for permission? 2. What should we do in case the companies don't want their products added?

AOB 5. Belgium: WUR Calculation (criterion 7 APC) weight utility ratio Criterion 7f for all purpose cleaners. Ready to use window cleaner in a bottle with a trigger 500ml and a refill bottle of 500ml. This refill bottle is the same expect from the fact that it has a normal cap and no trigger head. e.g. a bottle = 30gr, trigger = 25gr and label = 2gr, normal cap= 3gr There are as many bottles sold as refills In Belgium opinion only the trigger head is reused in this case (as the consumer will just screw the trigger head on the bottle of the refill) and we can only use a factor r=2 for the WUR of the trigger. r= recycling figure

AOB 5. Belgium: WUR Calculation (criterion 7 APC) weight utility ratio So Belgium calculates the WUR for the bottle with trigger head as follows: ((30 + 30)/ 0.5*1) + ((25 +25)/0.5*2) + ((2 + 2)/0.5*1) = 178 gr bottle trigger label => >150 gr doesn’t fulfill the criterion! Do you calculate it in the same way or do you think that I should use a r=2 also for the bottle and the label?

AOB 6. Originate Guidelines –Article 9 of Regulation 66/2010 (Which CB should handle licensees) Jacob finalized document: _file_ Minutes Two “weird” cases Italy   a. Unfair competition/fee reasons: Italian company, factories in Italy, one subsidiary in another country ...they want to apply in this other country ...and according to our "guidelines" they could...-situation 3- (they are mainly doing it not to pay our higher fees)... shouldn’t they apply in the other country only for the specific products produced there, or also for products produced in Italy. b. Retailer problem. If a product is entirely produced in Italy, but this retailer is based in another MS...and he wants to apply for the Ecolabel in this MS..can he do it?