Traducción de «Clasificación ecológica » (Español → Inglés) :

The ancillary tasks will be entrusted to the agency only on condition that they provide real added value, without duplicating work undertaken elsewhere, and do not infringe on member states' rights and obligations; these tasks include environmental issues such as greenhouse gas emissions from shipping and the environmental status of marine waters, the development of an information sharing system, specific tasks related to inland waterway transport, namely inspecting classification societies for inland waterway vessels and exploring the possibility of interlinking maritime and inland waterway information systems, or contributions to othe ...[+++]r EU policies.

According to Article 6(6) of the Regulation (EC) No 66/2010 on the EU Ecolabel, the product or any part of it thereof shall not contain substances or mixtures meeting the criteria for classification with the hazard classes or categories in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 specified below nor shall it contain substances referred to in Article 57 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006.

6. The EU Ecolabel may not be awarded to goods containing substances or preparations/mixtures meeting the criteria for classification as toxic, hazardous to the environment, carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (CMR), in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (11), nor to goods containing substances referred to in Article 57 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restri ...[+++]ction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency (12).

(7a) In order to increase the use of the Community Ecolabel scheme in future revisions of this Regulation, there will be a need for a definite shift from the 10 % best performing products criteria to the introduction of a gradation system in each product category to help consumers to make sustainable consumption choices and to create incentives to manufacturers constantly to improve their offer.

41. Suggests that a binding code for advertising be introduced which outlaws false green claims and, in order to promote strong consumer demand for vehicles with low CO2 emissions, recommends the introduction of an environmental performance "green star" rating system taking into account all aspects of environmental performance, including CO2 emissions (g/km) and emissions of other pollutants, fuel consumption (l/100 km), weight, aerodynamics, space efficiency, noise and environmental driving aids;

3. Calls therefore, once again, for the work of the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) to be re-invigorated, not least as concerns Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), Ecolabelling, Non-product related Process and Production Methods (PPMs), Transparency, Domestically Prohibited Goods, and for the work on environmental aspects of Trade Related Intellectual Property and Services (TRIPS) to begin in earnest, so that it can truly fulfill its Marrakech mandate before the end of the century;