The Commission mandates the EUEB to develop and regularly review eco-label criteria.
The Commission issues a call for tenders resulting in the selection of an Advisory body, and a workgroup is formed.
The advisory body conducts a feasibility study and then proposes fitness-for-use criteria and environmental criteria. Consultation continues throughout the drafting of the specifications, alongside the feasibility study and the development of criteria concurrent with regular feedback to the EUEB.
On completing the work for a given product category, the Regulatory Committee summons representatives from every Member State and votes on whether to approve the guideline.
Each specifications document is published in the OJEC in the form of a Decision adopted by the European Commission. It specifies a "labellable" category of product or service, together with the related applicable ecological and performance criteria. The Decision also contains specific information on the logo.
The regulation therefore defines a specific category of products, i.e. "products intended for the same purpose and which demonstrate equivalence of use".
