§ Mr. BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress has been made on a system of bands of fees on the basis of the applicants revenues in order to encourage small companies to apply for the eco-label.
§ Mr. MacleanThe European Commission is drawing up proposals for indicative fee guidelines as they are required to do by the EC regulation. The draft proposals envisage an application fee, to meet the costs of processing the application, and an annual licence fee for the use of the label which would be related to the annual value of sales in the Community of the product awarded the eco-label.