The Nordic Swan Ecolabel

The official ecolabel of the Nordic countries works to reduce the environmental impact from production and consumption of goods – and to make it easy for consumers and professional buyers to choose the environmentally best goods and services.

The Nordic Swan Ecolabel:

  • Sets strict environmental requirements in all relevant phases of a product’s life cycle
  • Sets strict requirements for chemicals used in ecolabelled products
  • Tightens requirements for goods and services continuously to create sustainable development
  • Certifies and verifies that all requirements are met before a product is approved.

59 sets of environmental requirements

The Nordic Swan Ecolabel has developed environmental requirements for a number of different goods and services. In order to be ecolabelled with the Nordic Swan Ecolabel, products must document that they meet the environmental requirements for the relevant product category. It is possible to obtain a certification with the Nordic Swan Ecolabel within 59 different product categories counting more than 200 different product types.

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Established in 1989

The Nordic Swan Ecolabel was established in 1989 by the Nordic Council of Ministers as a voluntary ecolabelling scheme for the nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It is an effective tool to help companies that want to go ahead with sustainable solutions – and thereby enable consumers and professional buyers to choose the environmentally best goods and services.

Global Ecolabelling Network

The Nordic Swan Ecolabel is one of the founders back in 1994 of the international network for ISO 14024 Type 1 ecolabels, GEN, the Global Ecolabelling Network.