Environmental (ECO) labelling represents one of the most important tools for environmental protection improvement. Expanse of ECO labelling in the last years is connected with the invention of firms that care for environment can make a profit. The result is the emergence of different declarations, requirements and environmental labels for products, processes and services. The ISO 14020 standard and the definition of three types of environmental labeling have been introduced. The ecological label could be on the packaging or on the products. Our assessment is that all three types of ECO labeling are suitable and useful for steel products and semi-finished products. In the master's thesis, a detailed environmental labeling study was conducted on the case of the fifteen largest European steel producers. An overview and distribution of environmental labels was carried out. All the fifteen largest European steel producers have obtained and validated ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certificates, and a large part of ISO 16949 and EMAS. In the area of environmental labeling, however, the situation is extremely poor, as only two of them have obtained the Type I ECO label, and a smaller part of the type II and III designations.
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