VOC and SVOC content limits
Mandatory
Required? Yes: must be met to carry the credential.
Klar Cite summary
Ready-to-use paints, with any tints or thinners, must not exceed the scheme's VOC and SVOC content limits; dual-use products take the indoor SVOC limit. It applies to performance coatings and related products. An independent assessor checks it. This concerns human health.
EU Ecolabel·clause Criterion 3·p.39
Human Health
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What the product must meet
The document’s own listing
Product description (with subcategory denotation according to VOC limits (g/l of ready to use SVOC limits (g/l of ready to Directive 2004/42/EC) product) use product) i. One-pack performance coating products mentioned in Article 2(1), including waterproofing coatings but excluding anti-corrosion coatings 65 45(1)/ 55(2) j. Multi-pack reactive performance coating products mentioned in Article 2(1), including waterproofing coatings but excluding anti-corrosion coatings 65 45 (part of i or j) Anti-corrosion coating products and primers 65 50
The document’s own compact listing of the limits, as harvested.
- Applies to
- performance coatings and related products
How it is proven
- Evidence required
- calculations of VOC and SVOC contents based on the ingredients and raw materials used in the ready to use product. Alternatively, test reports using methods given in relevant European or international standards.
- Who checks it
- Independent body verifies — a certifier, auditor or verifier with no stake
Klar Cite’s reading
Klar Cite’s reading of the clause, not the scheme’s own claim.
- Type of requirement
- Meet a limit or condition — e.g. a maximum emission or a minimum recycled content
- Required?
- Yes — must be met to carry the credential
- Topic
- Human Health — the topic the clause addresses, grouped by the Common Materials Framework (CMF)
- Refers to
- Table 6 — places elsewhere in the document
Cite this clause
EU Ecolabel · Decorative paints, varnishes and related products, performance coatings, water-based aerosol spray paints · version 32025D2607 · clause Criterion 3 · page 39 · build 2026-10-27-1239 · https://klarcite.com/r/cc29650c56768f02
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