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EU Ecolabel Criteria for Tourist Accommodation Services


The new EU Ecolabel (EUEL) revision for this project is expected to start soon (starting date to be confirmed)


This project will be based mainly on the requirements addressed in Annex I of the Regulation (EC) No 66/2010 of the European Parliament and the Council of 25 November 2009 on the EU Ecolabel.


The following five tasks are foreseen:

Task 1 – Product scope definition
Task 2 – Market analysis
Task 3 – Technical analysis
Task 4 – Improvement potential
Task 5 – Elaboration of draft criteria and technical background reports

 

Deliverables:

1. Preliminary report: contains outcomes from tasks 1-4, covering:

Product definition and classification
Economic and market analysis
Technical and environmental analysis

2. Technical report including criteria proposal and supporting rationale. During the revision process, this report is improved via stakeholders' consultation, with several intermediate versions are produced.

Project timeline:

The Table below reports the stages of the project that will require the participation of registered stakeholders. 

Milestone

Date

Initial questionnaire to gather feedback on current TAS EUEL criteria

Tentative launch: end of April 2025

1st  Criteria proposals presented in Technical report 1 /

1st Ad-hoc Working Group meeting

Tentative: December 2025/January 2026

2nd  Criteria proposals presented in Technical report 2 /

2nd   Ad-hoc Working Group meeting

To be communicated

 

For each milestone, the stakeholder consultation will include the following steps:

  1. The JRC will communicate by email to all registered stakeholders the time and steps of the specific consultation. In the same email, the JRC will provide instructions on how to access the working document(s) related to the milestone. All documents will be uploaded on the specific document section.

  2. Registered stakeholders will read the working document(s) before the on-line Ad-hoc Working Group consultation meeting.

  3. The JRC and registered stakeholders will attend the on-line consultation meeting. In this meeting, registered stakeholders will be able to openly discuss with the JRC and among themselves.

  4. Registered stakeholders will provide comments to the working document(s).
  5. On the documents section, the JRC will publish a document containing anonymised written comments submitted by the registered stakeholders with the corresponding answer by the JRC.

The suitable time will be given to each step of the stakeholder consultation.