our organization © EkomarinAfter receiving the certification applications from the companies and making the preliminary evaluation, it signs a contract with the company and starts the certification studies. Following the conformity assessment, it sends the application of the company to the Certification Body and waits for the opinion of the organization.
In the meantime, companies that are confident that they meet the criteria related to the product group or services they apply, Eco-Label In order to prove that it meets the criteria, Ekomark © has to deliver the necessary documents, declarations, test results and similar information.
In Ekomark © certification studies, this stage is the sample acceptance stage. At this stage, samples are requested from the applicant company to provide testing and analysis of their products.
The Eco-Label, which will be given to companies by our organization Ekomark ©, is given considering the criteria determined by the ECO Label™ Eco-Label Board, which is an independent organization, and all stages of production. While determining these criteria, every stage from the selection of raw materials for production, production, distribution of finished products, presentation to the consumer, consumption and recycling when they are used has been taken into consideration.
The Eco-Label Regulation 2010 / 66 / EC, revised in 2010, contains only general information. Criteria on product group basis have been developed by the official bodies of the European Union. At the same time, information such as the period of validity of the Eco-Label to be given to companies and the methods of proving compliance with the criteria shall be included in the commission decision regarding the product group.
The following examples can be given to the product groups in which the Eco-Label application is in use: cleaning (soap, detergent, shampoo, etc.), office and printing products (photocopy, computer, imaging equipment, printing paper, etc.), electrical and electronic equipment (TV, refrigerator, washing machine, lighting, bulb, heat pumps, etc.), construction (wooden furniture, beds, flower pots, paint, varnish, buildings, toilets, heating systems, etc.), garden (agricultural products and soil reclaiming materials, etc.), holiday fields (hotel, camping place, etc), clothing products.
Our Company Ekomark ©, certification It gives information about which test results will be needed for the products of the requesting companies and where and how these tests will be done. These tests must be carried out in laboratories operating in accordance with the General Conditions standard for ISO 17020 Product conformity assessment or in a laboratory accredited by an equivalent system to this standard. A list of these laboratories is available on the website of the European Accreditation Agency.
Our organization Ekomark ©, after completing the necessary test and analysis studies, prepares a file and sends it to the Certification Committee and requests the evaluation of the results.
Eco-Label System or Ecological Label System is also very important for the manufacturers in our country. Because almost half of our exports are to European Union countries. Assuming that this will be the case in the future, the importance of European Union countries in terms of exports will continue. In order for our products to be preferred in this market, such standards must be met. For today, Vestel and Arçelik in television production, Deniz Tekstil and Hürsan Havlu in textile production are the companies that have received the Eco-Label.