To meet our customers' needs in a better way, Nordic Ecolabelling has divided the old criteria document for hotels, restaurants and conferences into two documents:
The product group includes all types of hotels and other accommodation – with or without restaurants and / or conference facilities.
A company certified by the Nordic Swan Ecolabel meets ambitious environmental requirements and has taken a holistic approach to its environmental work connected to energy, water, food, waste, biological diversity, chemicals and procurement. The hotel has an active and structured approach to reduce its consumption and optimize operations.
The criteria for a Nordic Swan Ecolabelled hotel and other accomodation include:
Limit value for energy use
Prohibition of fossil oil or gas for heating.
Energy and CO2-reducing measures to limit the environmental footprint.
Limit value for water use
Efficient use of water
Limit value for residual waste
Effective sorting of waste to ensure recycling of materials and more circular use of resources
Implementing routines to prevent food waste.
No use of disposable items in daily serving.
Strict environmental demands for single use items for catering, take-away and fast food
Reduction of environmental footprint by serving more sustainable food.
Measures to ensure biological diversity on the hotel grounds
Use of ecolabelled products for general cleaning, dishwashing and laundry to limit undesirable chemicals.
Use of several ecolabelled products and services.
Training of employees to include everyone in the environmental work.
Separate fees apply to chains wherein five or more businesses, all sharing identical brand and similar concepts, are licenced with the Nordic Swan Ecolabel on a national level. This requires that the businesses apply for the licences together in a coordinated way, and they must also keep the coordination during the validity period of the licences.
Application fee
The fees below are invoiced when applying for a new licence.
Application for a new licence
2 200 EUR
Fee for the first business in a chain
2 200 EUR
Fee for each additional business part of the chain
1 500 EUR
The fees below are invoiced when applying for a renewed licence when the requirements have been tightened.
Application for a renewed licence
1 100 EUR
Fee for the first business in a chain
1 100 EUR
Fee for each additional business part of the chain
750 EUR
Annual licence fee
The licence fee for the Nordic Swan Ecolabelled business is based on its turnover.
The fee is 0,1 % of the business's turnover up to 1,8 million EUR.
The fee is 0,03 % of the business's turnover for the amount exceeding 1,8 million EUR.
The minimum fee is 1 000 EUR per year. The maximum fee is 4 000 EUR per year.
For chains, the annual fee is calculated as a fixed rate of 1 600 EUR per business.
Fee for extension / change of licence
Fixed fee that is charged depending on how long the work takes.
0–4 hours
375 EUR
4–8 hours
750 EUR
8 or more hours
1 500 EUR
Fee for on-site inspections
One on-site inspection is included when applying for a new or renewed licence.
Additional on-site inspections are 500 EUR per visit.
Nordic Ecolabelling has no financial profit purpose and is financed through the fees above along with annual government grants. Each national Nordic Ecolabelling organization is however liable for VAT according to article 56 of the Council Directive 2006/112/EC.
All fees are stated excluding VAT.
Read more about Fee regulations for Nordic Ecolabelling here.
Please contact your national Nordic Ecolabelling office for more information regarding invoicing currency.
When a business applies for a new licence for the first time, no annual licence fee is invoiced the year of approval. When applying for a renewed licence, both the renewal fee and the annual licence fee will be invoiced.