Appendix B: Additional information on initiatives

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Appendix B: Additional information on initiatives

GEN Members

Organization(s)

Program delivered

Standards/ criteria sets

Licenses issued to companies

Certified  products/services

Asociacion Espanola de Normalizacion y Certificacion — AENOR [Spain]

AENOR Medio Ambiente

13

52

275

Associascao Brasileira de Normas Technicas — ABNT [Brasil]

Certificado do Rótulo Ecológico ABNT – Qualidade Ambiental

Australian Environmental Labelling Association – AELA, Inc.

Australian Ecolabel Program

24

26

280

Central Pollution Control Board — CPCB [India]

Ecomark Scheme of India

16

6

9

Clean & Green Foundation, Inc. [Philippines]

Green Choice Philippines

7

2

2

DG Environment (DG3), European Commission + AENOR [Spain]/Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [United Kingdom]/Ecolabelling Denmark/ Ecolabelling Norway/Ministere de l’Environment, Luxembourg/Ministry of the Environment, Czech Republic/Ministry of the Environment and Physical Planning, Greece/SIS Ecolabelling AB [Sweden]/ Umweltbundesamt [Germany]

European Eco-label/ “The Flower”

23

231*

Ecolabelling Denmark/Ecolabelling Norway/SIS Ecolabelling AB [Sweden]

Nordic Swan

59**

~700 companies/ 1 067 licenses**

>3 000**

Environment and Development Foundation — EDF [ROC (Taiwan)]

Green Mark

88

551

2 556

Federal Environment Agency [Germany]

Ecolabel Blue Angel

86

571

3 359

Green Council [Hong Kong]

Hong Kong Green Label

41

7

20

Green Seal Inc. [USA]

Green Seal

43

99

493

Hong Kong Federation of Environmental Protection (HKFEP)

Environment Label Certification

16

6

16

Japan Environment Association — JEA

Eco Mark Program

45

1 765

5 074

Korea Environmental Labelling Association — KELA

Environment Labelling Program

102

448

1 765

Living Planet [Ukraine]

Program for Development of Ecological Marking in Ukraine

13

68

63

Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning, Republic of Croatia

Environment Label of the Republic of Croatia

40

12

18

Ministry of the Environment & Czech Environment Agency, Czech Republic

National Program of Labelling Environmentally Products

39

72

176

The New Zealand Ecolabelling Trust — NZET

Environmental Choice New Zealand

23

13

207

Singapore Environment Council — SEC

Singapore Green Labelling Scheme — SGLS

35

32

130

Swedish Society for Nature Conservation — SSNC

Good Environmental Choice

13

223

786

TCO Development [Sweden-based; international]

Quality and Ecolabelling Program

10

67

2 302

TerraChoice Environmental Services, Inc. — TESI [Canada]

Environmental ChoiceM Program

160

230

>3 000

Thailand Environment Institute — TEI

Thai Green Lable Program

39

30

162

Unilever's Fish Sustainability Initiative (FSI)

Fish banned under Marks & Spencer's (UK) sourcing policy

Common name

Species name

Stock

Atlantic salmon

Solmo solar

Scottish wild-caught

Bluefin tuna – northern

Thunnus thynnus

All

Bluefin tuna – southern

Thunnus maccoyii

All

Patagonian toothfish

Dissostichus eleginoides

All

Skates and rays

Raja and Dipturus species

All

Roundnose grenadier

Coryphaenoides rupestris

All

Orange roughy

Hoplostethus atlanticus

All
Sharks
All species
All
Cod

Godus morhua

North Sea, Irish Sea

Swordfish

Xiphias gladius

All except managed fisheries operating on-board observer programmes

Dolphin-safe tuna in the UK

Brand

Dolphin logo

Label statement

Certification

ASDA

Dolphin Friendly (on some tins)

None
None
Co-op
Dolphin Safe
None
Ell-certified
Glenryck
None

‘Dolphin Friendly’

Ell-certified
Iceland

Dolphin Friendly

None
None

John West/Heinz

None

‘Dolphin Friendly’

Ell-certified

Marks & Spencer

Dolphin Friendly

None
None
Princes

Dolphin Friendly (on some tins)

None
Ell-certified

Safeway/Morrisons

Dolphin Friendly (on some tins)

None
None
Sainsbury’s

Dolphin Friendly

Some labels state: ‘We are fully committed to fishing methods which protect marine life’ on ‘Sainsbury’s tuna is caught by using a pole and line, avoiding danger to other marine life.’

None
Somerfield

Dolphin Friendly (on some tins)

None
None
Waitrose
None

‘Waitrose tuna is caught using only fishing methods which do not harm dolphins or other marine mammals’

None
Tesco

Dolphin Friendly

‘Dolphin friendly: Tesco is fully committed to fishing methods which protect the marine environment and its species’

Ell-certified

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