Recital 48

(48) Consumers need to be protected from misleading information that could hamper their choices for more sustainable products. For that reason, it should be prohibited to place on the market or put into service products that bear or are accompanied by labels which are likely to mislead or confuse customers by mimicking the labels provided for in this Regulation, or that are accompanied by any other information which is likely to mislead or confuse customers with regard to the labels provided for in this Regulation. The EU Ecolabel and other nationally or regionally officially recognised EN ISO 14024 type I ecolabels are not to be considered misleading or confusing labels, provided that the criteria developed under those labelling schemes are at least as strict as the ecodesign requirements.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.