A new report by our member organisation FERN reveals severe shortcomings in the EU's eco-labelling scheme for paper.

The report investigates the award of the EU Ecolabel to two photocopy brands, Golden Plus and Lucky Boss, manufactured by the Indonesian company Pindo Deli, part of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world's most controversial pulp and paper companies.

The report concludes that the EU Ecolabel criteria for sustainable forest management for copy & graphic paper and the revised version (latest draft from December 2009) are very weak and not adequate to ensure that the most egregious forest operations are excluded. In addition, the EU Ecolabel award process is non-transparent and the EU Ecolabel should be withdrawn for Pindo Deli's brands of photocopy paper.

The report is another piece of evidence that the EU Ecolabel for paper, the 'EU flower', is in urgent need for reform. EEPN is about to engage on this issue.

You can find the full report here: www.fern.org/node/4684