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Solid fuels and firelighting products 087

The product group covers a wide range of product types such as barbeque charcoal, briquettes, firelighters, firewood, pellets and wood chips.

  • Please select a portal guide below, and read it carefully before you get started. Keep the guide as a support when working with you application.

  • The criteria document for solid fuels and firelighting products is an overall document for the commodity groups:

    • Wood pellets and wood chips
    • Wood briquettes and firewood
    • Barbeque charcoal, barbeque briquettes and fireligthing products
       

    Fees are charged per commodity group according to the price list below.

    Valid from 1/1 2025

    Amount excluding VAT

    Application fees

    		  
    Application for a new licence 3 348 EUR
    Application for renewal 1 673 EUR

    Annual licence fee

    The licence fee for the Nordic Swan Ecolabelled service is based on its turnover.

    Wood pellets and wood chips  
    Up to 20.6 million EUR. 0.15% of the products' turnover
    More than 20.6 million EUR. 0.05% of the products' turnover
       
    Wood briquettes, firewood, charcoal, briquettes and firelighting products  
    Up to 51.5 million EUR. 0.3% of the products' turnover
    More than 51.5 miljoner EUR. 0.05% of the products' turnover
       
    Minimum fee in the Nordic countries 2 232 EUR per year.
    Fixed fee that is added for sales outside the Nordic countries 2 232 EUR per year if the turnover exceeds 300 000 EUR.

    Fee for extension / change of licence

    Fixed fee that is charged depending on how long the work takes.

    Up to 4 hours 418 EUR
    4-8 hours 836 EUR
    8 or more hours 1 673 EUR

    Fee for on-site inspections

    One on-site visit within the Nordic region is included in the application for a new or renewed licence.

    Additional on-site inspection within the Nordic region 557 EUR per visit
    On-site inspection outside the Nordic region, but within Europe 1 673 EUR per visit
    On-site inspection outside Europe 2 790 EUR per visit
    Additional fee for on-site inspections lasting longer than one day 1 115 EUR per day

     

  • In the criteria document, you can read about how to document and verify compliance for each requirement. You can also find other application documents here.

  • Information on the latest version of the criteria for solid fuels and firelightning products

    3.4 ⇛ 3.5: Prolongation of the validity of the criteria

    The validity of the criteria has been prolonged. The new version, 3.5, is valid until 30 September 2026.

    3.3 ⇛ 3.4: Prolongation of the validity of the criteria

    The validity of the criteria has been prolonged with 15 months. The new version, 3.4, is valid until 30 June 2025.

    3.2 ⇛ 3.3: Alteration of the criteria

    Requirement O27 Take-back system has been removed. The new version is called 3.3 and is valid until March 31, 2024.

    3.1 ⇛ 3.2: Prolongation of the validity of the criteria

    The validity of the criteria has been prolonged with 24 monthsr. The new version, 3.2, is valid until 31 Mars 2024.

    3.0 ⇛ 3.1: Alteration of the criteria

    On 18 October 2017, the adjusted requirement to radiation intensity in requirement 017 was remowed from the criteria. Furthermore, the document was updated with a number of former interpretation requirements. The new version is called 3.1 and is valid until March 31st 2022.

    3.0: New criteria generation

    The new generation criteria was published on March 6th 2017 and is valid until March 31st 2022.

  • In the background document below you will find reasoning and facts behind the specific requirements in the criteria document.

    Here you can also read the comments, requirement for requirement, from the public hearing.

    If the documents are in a Nordic language, you can get help in understanding the sections you need by contacting the product specialist in your chosen country below.