International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products (AISE)

Summary of the initiative

Name
International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products (AISE)
Objective(s)
In 1996 AISE developed a Code of Good Environmental Practice for the Household Laundry Detergents, (hereafter "the Code"), for implementation in 18 countries : the 15 EU Member States and 3 additional countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland). AISE committed itself to undertake initiatives in order to achieve these targets and approached the Commission to request from the Commission an endorsement of the initiative which the Commission gave in 1998.

Description of the Initiative

Obsolete case
    Sector

    Self/Co-Regulation Basic Act

    PRIVATE ACT
    Year
    1996
    Title of Act
    Code of Good Environmental Practice for the Household Laundry Detergents
    NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT
    Year
    1998
    Title of Act
    Commission Recommendation 98/480/EC of 22 July 1998 concerning good environmental practice for household laundry detergents, Official Journal L 215, 01/08/1998 P. 0073 - 0075.

    Geographical Coverage

    Participating Countries
    Austria

    Description

    Problems that lead to the introduction of Self/Co-Regulation and the adoption of the Founding Act
    -
    Target Group(s)
    The Code is open to all companies both members and non-members of AISE associations. AISE wishes to have an industry wide initiative.
    Type of Instrument(s)
    Code of conduct.
    Level(s) at which private rules should be defined and applied
    Type of Monitoring
    Conduct an initial survey of compliance capacity of future regulateesConduct regular visits and spot checksInitiate complaints proceduresMaintain database of those bounded by the normsProduce regular reportsReceive complaints and verify if norms were breached or notReflexive dialogue with the - stakeholdersOther
    European Commissionyesyes
    National public authority
    International public authority
    Private regulator (code owner)yes
    Private independent party with a mandate (e.g. auditors)
    Self-appointed private parties (e.g. NGOs)
    Succinct description of the type of Monitoring
    -
    Type of Enforcement
    Faming, shaming and blamingJudicial sanctionsMembership suspension/exclusionPrivate finesOther
    Private Regulator
    Private independent party with a mandate (e.g. auditors)
    Court system
    Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) / Online dispute resolution (ODR)
    Succinct description of the type of Enforcement
    In order to monitor the progress of this recommendation, statistics are collected in the Member States. The collected statistics should be reported to the Commission and respectively to the national authorities. The information and the data to be collected as well as the process for data collection and verification are defined in the Annex of the recommendation. The national associations of the AISE and the AISE itself provide for an outside organisation to collect and process statistics.<BR>Every two years, until the goals set by the recommendation are reached, the Commission will hold consultations with the Member States, the AISE and Consumer Committee on the state of implementation of this recommendation. The Commission will inform the Council and the European Parliament accordingly and make the information publicly available.

    Results of Commission Monitoring

    Year of last Monitoring Results
    2004
    Scoring
    Link / Reference of Evaluation
    COM(2004)134 final.
    Monitoring periodicity / next evaluation
    Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council Pursuant to Article 9 of Commission Recommendation 98/480/EC of 22 July 1998 concerning Good Environmental Practice for Household Laundry Detergents (COM/2004/134 final)
    The Commission concludes that overall the implementation of the Recommendation was a success.

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    SMO self- and co-regulation database - OFFICIAL code 115