Time: Tuesday 24 May 2016, 10:00 – 16:30
Venue: Koordinationsstelle der Wissenschaften, Rue du Trône 98, B-1050 Brussels
Open-Bio investigates how markets can be opened for bio-based products through standardization, labelling and procurement. Part of the Open-Bio project deals with the question of whether the EU Ecolabel can be extended to explicitly cover bio-based products, and if yes, how. The objective was to assess the suitability of ecolabel criteria for bio-based products or, in other words, to find out whether the existing criteria of ecolabels can be applied to bio-based products, whether there are conflicts of harmonization and whether additional criteria can or should to be added in order to adequately label bio-based products.
Product groups at the focal point of the analysis:
– Plant-oil based paints and varnishes
– Rinse-off cosmetics with bio-based ingredients
– Absorbent hygiene products
– Detergents
– Mulching films & other plastic agricultural equipment (plant clips etc.)
– Disposables for food
– Wood-plastic composites (WPC)
– Cellulosic fibres
– Bio-based solvents
This workshop is part of the Open-Bio project, funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (www.open-bio.eu).
Participation is free of charge and is limited to 40 participants! Please register until 16th of May at www.bio-based.eu/open-bio-workshop/registration