What does the Nordic Swan Ecolabel cost?

When you apply for the Nordic Swan Ecolabel, you must pay a fee. Additionally, when you have a certification, you must pay an annual usage fee based on the turnover of the certified product or service.

Both the application fee and annual usage fee vary from product group to product group. Find your product group to see the exact costs here.

Type of fees

What do you need to pay when you apply for the Nordic Swan Ecolabel?

When you apply for a licence for the Nordic Swan Ecolabel, you must pay an application fee. Typically, the fee amounts to 3,000 euros + VAT and can normally cover several products manufactured at the same production site.

The application fee covers the time we spend processing your application, in addition to an inspection visit to a production site in the Nordic region. If your products are produced outside of the Nordic region, you will have to pay an additional fee for the inspection visit.
What do you need to pay when you have a certification for the Nordic Swan Ecolabel?

You will need to pay an annual usage fee in order to maintain your certification for the Nordic Swan Ecolabel - even if the mark has not been actively used in marketing. The annual usage fee is based on your annual revenue from your Nordic Swan ecolabelled products and/or services. You will therefore have to report which countries you are selling to and the estimated annual revenue per country. This applies to countries both in and outside of the Nordic region.

You will always have to pay the annual usage fee - typically, the minimum fee amounts to 2,000 euros + VAT. For many product groups, there is also a maximum fee size.

You must pay the annual usage fee even if you have only had a licence for part of the year. However, you will only have to pay usage fee for the part of the year where you have had the certification. The minimum and maximum fee sizes will be adjusted if you have acquired a certification after the 1st of July.

When you become certificed, the annual usage fee will be calculated with an on-account invoice for the current year. Subsequently, at the beginning of the new year you will receive a new on-account invoice together with an annual statement for the previous year.

You will receive an invoice from each of the Nordic countries that you are selling in.
The cost to extend or make changes to your existing certification

If you wish to add or remove products on your certification or change the composition or production of your products or services, you must apply for an extension, reduction or change to your certification and pay a fee for this.
The size of the fee depends on how much time we need to spend on processing your application.
The cost to renew your certification

Your certification is valid as long as the criteria for your product group remain valid. The Nordic Swan Ecolabel's criteria are revised approximately every 4-5 years. Before the criteria for your product group expire, you must renew your certification if you wish to continue to have the Nordic Swan Ecolabel on your product or service.

If you apply for renewal in good time, allowing us to complete the processing of your application before the criteria expire, you will only pay a renewal fee. If you apply after the criteria - and thus your certification– has expired, your request is considered a new application and you will then have to pay a full application fee.

The renewal fee is lower than a full application fee. Therefore, it is a good idea to apply in due time. This will save you money and also, you avoid to remove the Nordic Swan Ecolabel from your product for a period of time when you do not have a valid certification.
Payment terms

VAT is added to the fee upon invoicing, and the invoice must be paid within 30 days.
What are the fees used for?

Ecolabelling Denmark is a non-profit organisation. This means that the revenue from fees is used to process applications and manage certifications in the national ecolabelling organisations - and to increase the supply and demand for ecolabelled products and services. The purpose is to reduce the total environmental impact for the benefit of people, the environment and the Earth's resources.

Ecolabelling Denmark is focused on increasing the demand for products and services that carry the Nordic Swan Ecolabel from both consumers, companies and green public procurement - and to ensure that there is a high level of awareness and high credibility associated with the Nordic Swan Ecolabel.

What does the Nordic Swan Ecolabel cost?

Select your product group in order to see the specific fees