Type of environmental labeling

ISO 14020 series set category of environmental labels into three types as follows:

"Type I" environmental labeling program (by ISO 14024:1999)
Voluntary, multiple-criteria-based third party program that awards a license which authorize the use of environmental labels on products indicating overall environmentally preferability of a product within a particular product category based on life cycle considerations

e.g. Blue Angel(Germany), Ecomark(Japan)

"Type II" environmental labeling (by ISO 14021)
Self-Declared environmental claim: Environmental claim that is made, without independent third-party certification, by manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers or anyone else likely to benefit from such a claim. �@

"Type III" environmental labeling program (by TR14025) Voluntary process by which an industrial sector or independent body develops a Type III environmental declaration*, including setting minimum requirements, selecting categories of parameters, defining the involvement of third parties and format of external communications. (* "Type III" environmental labeling declarations (by TR14025) Quantified environmental data for a product with pre-set categories of parameters based on the ISO 14040 series of standards, but not excluding additional environmental information provided within a Type III environmental declaration program.)

Explanatory note about Type III (by EcoLeaf program office)
The type III declares lifetime environmental impact information in quantities form, based on LCA: Life Cycle Assessment technique. This type of declaration includes whole environmental impact information on raw material extraction to production, distribution, use, disposal, and recycling of a used product finally. In principle, The Type III differs from the other two in presenting lifetime and quantitative environmental impact information without any judgment.