Translation of "Environmental Choice " (English → French) :

In order to avoid the proliferation of environmental labelling schemes and to encourage higher environmental performance in all sectors for which environmental impact is a factor in consumer choice, the possibility of using the EU Ecolabel should be extended.

It can provide the market tools to empower citizens, as consumers, to make sustainable environmental choices.

8. Each Party shall develop mechanisms with a view to ensuring that sufficient product information is made available to the public in a manner which enables consumers to make informed environmental choices.

Noting the importance of adequate product information being provided to consumers to enable them to make informed environmental choices,

Better and more systematic information on the environmental characteristics of building materials is necessary to guide designers, builders and their customers in their choice of materials, and the Commission will develop the environmental labelling of construction materials in the framework of environmental product declarations (EPD's) and/or the EU eco-label as appropriate.

(1) both parties to the agreement or their connected undertakings are motor vehicle manufacturers; or (2) the parties link their agreement to stipulations concerning products or services other than those referred to in this Regulation or apply their agreement to such products or services; or (3) in respect of motor vehicles having three or more road wheels, spare parts or services therefor, the parties agree restrictions of competition that are not expressly exempted by this Regulation; or (4) in respect of motor vehicles having three or more road wheels or spare parts therefor, the parties make agreements or engage in concerted practices which are exempted from the prohibition in Article 85 (1) of the Treaty under Regulations (EEC) No 1 ...[+++]983/83 or (EEC) No 1984/83 to an extent exceeding the scope of this Regulation; or (5) the parties agree that the supplier reserves the right to conclude distribution and servicing agreements for contract goods with specified further undertakings operating within the contract territory, or to alter the contract territory; or (6) the manufacturer, the supplier or another undertaking directly or indirectly restricts the dealer's freedom to determine prices and discounts in reselling contract goods or corresponding goods; or (7) the manufacturer, the supplier or another undertaking within the network directly or indirectly restricts the freedom of final consumers, authorized intermediaries or dealers to obtain from an undertaking belonging to the network of their choice within the common market contract goods or corresponding goods or to obtain servicing for such goods, or the freedom of final consumers to resell the contract goods or corresponding goods, when the sale is not effected for commercial purposes; or (8) the supplier, without any objective reason, grants dealers remunerations calculated on the basis of the place of destination of the motor vehicles resold or the place of residence of the purchaser; or (9) the supplie ...