Please find enclosed the joint feedback from two competent bodies for national ecolabels, SMK (Stichting Milieukeur) and VKI - Austrian Consumer Association (Austrian Ecolabel) as well as the Austrian Position Paper on "Handling Green Claims". In our feedback we express our concerns regarding a possible obligation to integrate e.g.
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VKI - Austrian Consumer Association
NGO · Austria · EU Transparency Register 502554623335-14
5
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
4
legislative files
of 665 tracked
3
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,774 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1106 non-governmental organisations on this site, they rank #317 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
2.2
declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€400K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
0
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2016
in the register since
Declares membership of
- Details siehe: https://vki.at/wer-sind-wir
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Non-governmental organisations
- Registered as
- Verein für Konsumenteninformation (VKI)
- Head office
- Wien, Austria
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
VKI - Austrian Consumer Association filed 5 positions between 4 Jun 2018 and 17 Sept 2021, across 4 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 3 times.
2018 · 3 filed2020 · 1 filed2021 · 1 filed
What they argued
As official certification body for the Austrian Ecolabel, the Austrian Consumer Association (Verein für Konsumenteninformation – VKI) is also in charge of the Austrian Ecolabel Guideline 49 „Sustainable Finance Products“ – with currently 36 licence holders and 96 awarded funds.
We appreciate the initiative of the European Commission to introduce rules stablishing and governing the provisions of “low carbon” and “positive carbon impact” benchmarks. This allows investors, being interested in climate change related impacts, to make informed investment decisions.
From the point of view of consumer protection, it is very problematic to transfer information on products from the label to the internet. Information on the internet is much less retrieved than it can be read directly on the label. As a result, transparency for consumers is degraded and makes it more difficult to make informed purchasing decisions.
Filed in German · English published by the European Commission
To whom it might concern In view of a policy framework, and especially regarding circular economy, a holistic approach it is crucial. It is beyond controversy that minimizing climate change, ozone depletion, acidification, eutrophication, resource use and others are important contributions on the way to circular economy.
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