This is a mark that shows compliance with UNE ecological standards, designed to distinguish those products or services that have the least impact on the environment during their life cycle: the raw materials used; design; manufacture; use and disposal after use.

The AENOR Medio Ambiente environmental mark provides consumers with information on the environmental aspects of the products and services available on the market.

The stages in granting the mark are:

The ecological criteria are the requisites that a product or service must meet in order to receive the AENOR Medio Ambiente environmental mark and which are defined in the corresponding UNE Standards.

They are established through the following process:

The Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN), brings together the ecolabelling systems of its members from over 20 countries.

The main aims of the Global Ecolabelling Network are:

• to create a working framework of continual information exchange among bodies that have and grant ecolabels, including the establishment of a database of ecological criteria;
• to provide information on ecolabelling programmes essentially to companies, ecologists, and consumers;
• to move towards the harmonisation of ecological programmes;
• to provide information to developing programmes.