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Solid fuels and firelighting products 087

The product group covers a wide range of product types such as barbeque charcoal, briquettes, firelighters, firewood, pellets and wood chips.

There are 54 Ecolabelled products from 5 companies within productgroup.

  • Welcome to apply for a Nordic Swan Ecolabel licence!

    This is how you do:

    1. Read the application guide.
    2. Log in to the Nordic Ecolabelling Portal.
    3. Start your application.

     

    If this is the first time you are applying, the authorized signatory must fill in your company information and approve the application conditions. In this way, you get login to the portal and the right to assign access to other colleagues.

     

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    To the Nordic Ecolabelling Portal

    Some special cases can not be done in the Nordic Ecolabelling Portal. Contact your advisor for such cases. More information can be found on "Application step by step".

  • The criteria document for solid fuels and firelighting products is an overall document for the commodity groups:

    • Wood pellets and wood chips
    • Wood briquettes and firewood
    • Barbeque charcoal, barbeque briquettes and fireligthing products
       

    Fees are charged per commodity group according to the price list below.

    Valid from 1/1 2025

    Amount excluding VAT

    Application fees

    		  
    Application for a new licence 3 348 EUR
    Application for renewal 1 673 EUR

    Annual licence fee

    The licence fee for the Nordic Swan Ecolabelled service is based on its turnover.

    Wood pellets and wood chips  
    Up to 20.6 million EUR. 0.15% of the products' turnover
    More than 20.6 million EUR. 0.05% of the products' turnover
       
    Wood briquettes, firewood, charcoal, briquettes and firelighting products  
    Up to 51.5 million EUR. 0.3% of the products' turnover
    More than 51.5 miljoner EUR. 0.05% of the products' turnover
       
    Minimum fee in the Nordic countries 2 232 EUR per year.
    Fixed fee that is added for sales outside the Nordic countries 2 232 EUR per year if the turnover exceeds 300 000 EUR.

    Fee for extension / change of licence

    Fixed fee that is charged depending on how long the work takes.

    Up to 4 hours 418 EUR
    4-8 hours 836 EUR
    8 or more hours 1 673 EUR

    Fee for on-site inspections

    One on-site visit within the Nordic region is included in the application for a new or renewed licence.

    Additional on-site inspection within the Nordic region 557 EUR per visit
    On-site inspection outside the Nordic region, but within Europe 1 673 EUR per visit
    On-site inspection outside Europe 2 790 EUR per visit
    Additional fee for on-site inspections lasting longer than one day 1 115 EUR per day

     

    For clarification of fees, click here.

    Ecolabelling Sweden AB has no financial profit purpose and is financed through the fees above along with an annual government grant. The company is however liable for VAT according to article 56 of the European Council Directive 2006/112/EC.

    Invoicing is made in SEK with the exchange rate from the first banking day of the year.

    When both the applicant and the manufacturer are micro-enterprises, the application fee is reduced by 50%. A micro-enterprise is in this context defined as an enterprise with less than 10 employees and an annual turnover (of both ecolabelled and not ecolabelled products) below 2 million EUR.

     

    Fee regulations PDF
    General info about fees

  • Information on the latest version of the criteria for solid fuels and firelightning products

    3.4 ⇛ 3.5: Prolongation of the validity of the criteria

    The validity of the criteria has been prolonged. The new version, 3.5, is valid until 30 September 2026.

    3.3 ⇛ 3.4: Prolongation of the validity of the criteria

    The validity of the criteria has been prolonged with 15 months. The new version, 3.4, is valid until 30 June 2025.

    3.2 ⇛ 3.3: Alteration of the criteria

    Requirement O27 Take-back system has been removed. The new version is called 3.3 and is valid until March 31, 2024.

    3.1 ⇛ 3.2: Prolongation of the validity of the criteria

    The validity of the criteria has been prolonged with 24 monthsr. The new version, 3.2, is valid until 31 Mars 2024.

    3.0 ⇛ 3.1: Alteration of the criteria

    On 18 October 2017, the adjusted requirement to radiation intensity in requirement 017 was remowed from the criteria. Furthermore, the document was updated with a number of former interpretation requirements. The new version is called 3.1 and is valid until March 31st 2022.

    3.0: New criteria generation

    The new generation criteria was published on March 6th 2017 and is valid until March 31st 2022.

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