Blue Angel (certification)

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The Blue Angel (Blauer Engel) is a German certification for products and services that have environmentally friendly aspects.

The certificate has been awarded since 1978 by the Jury Umweltzeichen, a group of 13 persons from environment and consumer protection groups, industry, unions, trade, media and churches.

After the introduction of Germany’s Blue Angel in 1978 as the first world-wide environmental label, other European and non-European countries followed this example and introduced their own national and supra-regional environmental labels. The common goal of these labels is to inform consumers about environmentally friendly products thereby giving global support to product-related environmental protection.

In 1994, some countries cooperated in developing the Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) - a non-profit interest group composed of eco-label organisations throughout the world.

External links

• [www.blauer-engel.de]
• [European Union Eco-label Homepage]

 

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