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EuroCommerce welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback regarding the Inception Impact Assessment on substantiating green claims. The attached statement aims to summarize key points from the retail and wholesale sector on green claims and the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and support the Commission’s work to assess whether a legislative proposal on substantiating green claims is needed.

EuroCommerce welcomes the Commissions proposal for a Directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive). We agree that consumers should be able to rely on properly verified environmental claims. We, therefore, support further action on green claims to protect consumers and ensure fair competition in the Single Market.

As K+S, we see ourselves as pioneers in environmentally friendly and sustainable mining. Our constant efforts to set global standards resulted in several developments of new techniques and processes to better protect the environment and reduce our products footprints and these efforts are on-going.

EuroCommerce, the principal European organisation representing the retail and wholesale sector, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the roadmap for the simplification and digitalisation of labels on chemicals, and specifically the CLP Regulation, the Detergents Regulation and the Fertilising Products Regulation.

The Commission aims to improve the communication of labelling information and provide economic operators the flexibility to opt for the rules that are most appropriate for their specific products. In principle, this approach is heavily supported by industry including K+S as it may help save resources and costs, contribute to sustainability and facilitate communication.