This consultation is open until 29 June 2026.
Background
The European Commission is currently revising the EU Ecolabel criteria for furniture. To support this work, we are inviting stakeholders to share their experience and views.
This consultation aims to gather feedback on:
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Awareness and use of the EU Ecolabel for furniture,
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The practical feasibility of the current requirements (including testing and verification),
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Key barriers and drivers for uptake in the market, and
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Priorities for how the criteria could be updated to better reflect environmental impacts, innovation, and market reality, while maintaining credibility.
Your input will help to identify which parts of the criteria work well, where clarification or simplification is needed, and where the level of ambition may need to be adjusted or strengthened. Responses will be analysed in an aggregated form and used to inform the evidence base for the criteria revision process.
Thank you for contributing your expertise and helping to improve the environmental performance of furniture products on the European market.
This questionnaire is structured as follows:
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Information about you / your organisation
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General questions on familiarity and experience with the EU Ecolabel for furniture
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Questions on definition, scope and criteria overview
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Criteria-specific questions
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Market dynamics, demand and use of eco-labelled furniture
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Final considerations
Legal basis
The EU Ecolabel criteria for furniture are set out in Commission Decision (EU) 2016/1332 of 28 July 2016 (click here) establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the EU Ecolabel for furniture and have since been amended in 2022 (click here) and 2026 (click here) to extend the validity period of the criteria until the end of 2029.
For a general overview of the EU Ecolabel criteria for funiture please refer to this factsheet (criteria currently valid until 31 Dec. 2029.) Click here to download the document.
Stakeholders interested in contributing to the revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for furniture are invited to register to participate in the process and to receive information on upcoming consultation activities (e.g., ad-hoc working group meetings and opportunities to provide evidence and comments). Registration can be completed In the registration form accessible via the project website. Please note that in the registration process, it is possible to indicate your interest in contributing to the ESPR Preparatory Study and Impact Assessment in addition to the revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for furniture, depending on your areas of expertise and interest (see below).
Alignment of EU Ecolabel and EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) for furniture
For the furniture product group, the revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria and the preparatory work for setting of potential requirements under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) are being carried out in parallell. This approach is intended to make the best use of synergies between both processes, avoid duplication where possible, and ensure consistency of the underlying evidence and potential requirements. Please note that a broader stakeholder consulation will take place to support the ESPR. If you would also like to follow the ESPR-related work as interested stakeholder, please register here: https://espr-euecolabel-furniture.eu/register.
This questionnaire represents the initial stakeholder consultation for the revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for furniture.
Confidentiality of data and information provided via this form will be treated in accordance with the privacy guidelines available here. The data will not be presented in a way that allows conclusions to be drawn about individual persons or organisations. All results will be presented in anonymised and aggregated form (e.g., by stakeholder group).
