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per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | – |
| 2024 | 4 | €2m |
| 2025 | 8 | €22.2m |
| 2026 | 3 | €2.7m |
17 cases
5 Aug 2026 GmbH (im Urteil anonymisiert)Illegal dumping of construction waste: company must pay €375,000 forfeiture €375,000
The Oberlandesgericht (OLG, Higher Regional Court) Linz added a forfeiture of 375,000 EUR to the conviction of a limited company under the Verbandsverantwortlichkeitsgesetz (VbVG, Austrian Corporate Criminal Liability Act) for intentionally handling and moving waste in a way that endangered the environment; the suspended corporate fine of 30 daily rates of 500 EUR (15,000 EUR) imposed by the Landesgericht (Regional Court) Salzburg remained in place. From May 2021 to May 2024 and again from May 2025 to February 2026, contrary to the AWG 2002 (Waste Management Act) and partly to an official decision, the company had excavated soil, construction waste, asphalt and concrete rubble accepted for payment and deposited on a plot; removal costs were put at around 3.24 million EUR. Only the forfeiture of EUR 375,000 is recorded as the amount; the corporate fine of EUR 15,000 was conditionally suspended.
Anyone accepting and depositing waste without a permit risks not only a corporate fine but also forfeiture of the fees received for it, which can far exceed the fine.
Waste law and official conditions for excavated soil and construction waste
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Linz (Berufung gegen Urteil des Landesgerichts Salzburg vom 06.03.2026)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances
- Legal basis
- § 181b Abs. 1 und 2 StGB; §§ 3, 4 Abs. 1 und 3, § 6 Abs. 1, § 14 Abs. 1 VbVG; § 20 Abs. 3 StGB; AWG 2002
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Culpability
- intentional
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- No previous convictions of the company; rather low environmental risk. Further circumstances taken into account by the court concern a natural person and are not reported here.
- Liability of senior managers
- Under the VbVG, the company's liability is linked to the conduct of its managing director.
- OLG Linz, 9 Bs 153/26b vom 05.08.2026 (RIS) Court decision
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13 May 2026 NaphtachimieMarseille: environmental CJIP with Naphtachimie for €1.2m after oil leaks at Lavéra €1.2m
Pyrolysis oil leaked twice at the Lavéra petrochemical site in Martigues: around 50 tonnes in July 2018 through a failed seal into the Anse d'Auguette, part of which reached the sea, and around one tonne in April 2022 through a corroded seawater pipe, of which some 500 kg reached the Anse d'Auguette. Naphtachimie therefore concluded an environmental CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement) with the Marseille public prosecutor; it pays a public interest fine of 1,200,000 EUR, compensates two environmental associations and will trial, at its own expense, a biological clean-up of the Anse d'Auguette; validated on 13 May 2026.
Seals and pipes at plants handling substances hazardous to water must be inspected proactively; leaks lead to fines and remediation duties.
Maintenance and leak prevention at industrial sites near water
- Authority / court
- Parquet de Marseille (Procureur de la République); Validierung durch den Präsidenten des Tribunal judiciaire de Marseille
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits
- Legal basis
- Art. 41-1-3 Code de procédure pénale (pollution des eaux)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
- Published
- 26 May 2026
- Communiqué de presse du parquet de Marseille, 26 mai 2026 (CJIP-E Naphtachimie) Press release of an authority
- Ministère de la Justice: Liste der Conventions judiciaires d'intérêt public Official register or notice
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10 Mar 2026 Vier Unternehmen eines Bodenaufbereitungskonzerns aus Barneveld (anonymisiert)OM: €1.125m against four soil firms from Barneveld over environmental fraud €1.13m
The Openbaar Ministerie (OM, Dutch Public Prosecution Service) imposed penalty orders totalling 1,125,000 EUR on four companies from Barneveld that belonged to the same group at the time and are not named in the releases, consisting of 660,000 EUR in fines and 465,000 EUR in confiscation of unlawfully obtained gains. According to the OM, between 2013 and 2016 the firms accepted excessively contaminated sand, cleaned it inadequately or incorrectly and deliberately mixed it with cleaner sand for reuse, in breach of permit conditions and the Wet milieubeheer (Environmental Management Act) and involving forgery. The companies initially lodged an objection (verzet) but withdrew it, so the penalty orders are final (release of 2 July 2026).
In certified recycling chains no stage may bypass acceptance or testing criteria; mixing to conceal contamination turns a permit breach into environmental fraud.
Integrity in certified recycling chains for soil and waste
- Authority / court
- Openbaar Ministerie (OM), Functioneel Parket
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances
- Legal basis
- Vorschriften der Umgebungsgenehmigungen (omgevingsvergunningen); Wet milieubeheer; valsheid in geschrift; Strafbefehle des OM
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- The companies have adapted or ceased their activities, and measures have been taken within the group.
- Published
- 10 Mar 2026
- OM: Verzet tegen boetes van 1.125.000 euro voor milieufraude met verontreinigde zandgrond Press release of an authority
- OM: Boetes van in totaal 1.125.000 euro voor milieufraude met verontreinigde grond na intrekken verzet Press release of an authority
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4 Dec 2025 Eurowings GmbHDüsseldorf Higher Regional Court bans misleading Eurowings CO2 offsetting claims Order
On appeal by the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (Federation of German Consumer Organisations), the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court) prohibited Eurowings from advertising a €9 CO2 offset during online booking in a way that makes customers believe they travel climate-neutrally; it was not mentioned that other climate-damaging emissions are not offset. By contrast, the court did not consider the 'Sustainable Aviation Fuel' advertising misleading; it did not grant leave to appeal on points of law.
Anyone selling CO2 offsets must point out that only part of the climate impact is offset, even if each individual statement is correct.
CO2 offsetting and climate neutrality in customer communication
- Authority / court
- Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf, 20. Zivilsenat
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- UWG (irreführende Werbung); Az. I-20 U 38/25
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 5 Dec 2025
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6 Nov 2025 Braathens International Airways ABBraathens International Airways: SEK 142.8m for emission allowances not surrendered €13m
The Naturvårdsverket (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency) imposed a penalty of 142,757,565 SEK on the airline Braathens International Airways because it had not surrendered emission allowances for 99,707 tonnes of CO2 equivalent from 2024 by the deadline of 30 September 2025. The inflation-adjusted penalty amounts to 129.69 EUR per tonne (12,930,939 EUR) and does not release the company from the obligation to surrender allowances; the company had been declared bankrupt on 30 September 2025. A separate penalty was imposed on its sister company Braathens Regional Airways AB.
Surrendering emission allowances is a hard deadline without exceptions; even in a crisis it must be secured in liquidity planning.
Timely surrender of emission allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System
- Authority / court
- Naturvårdsverket
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits
- Legal basis
- 10 kap. 5 § förordningen (2020:1180) om vissa utsläpp av växthusgaser; 16 § 3 lagen om vissa utsläpp av växthusgaser; Art. 12 Abs. 3 Richtlinie 2003/87/EG (EU-Emissionshandel)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- None: EU rules allow no exception from the surrender obligation regardless of the company's financial situation.
- Published
- 10 Nov 2025
Original amount 142,757,565 SEK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 6 Nov 2025.
- Naturvårdsverket: Sanktionsavgifter för två flygbolag inom Braathens-koncernen (10.11.2025) Press release of an authority
- Naturvårdsverket, Beschluss NV-25-044709 vom 06.11.2025 – Braathens International Airways AB Decision of an authority
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23 Oct 2025 TotalEnergies; TotalEnergies Electricité et Gaz de FranceParis Judicial Court: TotalEnergies advertising on climate neutrality misleading Order
In an action brought by Greenpeace France, Les Amis de la Terre and Notre Affaire à Tous, the Paris Judicial Court (Tribunal judiciaire de Paris, 34th chamber) found that TotalEnergies had advertised on totalenergies.fr with the goal of ‘carbon neutrality by 2050’ and its role as a player in the energy transition without disclosing that oil and gas production continues to be expanded – a misleading commercial practice. The court ordered the communication to cease, damages to be paid to the associations and the operative part of the judgment to be published on the website (RG 22/02955); claims relating to gas and agrofuels were dismissed.
Net-zero targets may only be advertised to consumers with reference to the actual business strategy.
Climate targets in consumer communication
- Authority / court
- Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (34. Kammer)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- Art. L121-1 ff. Code de la consommation (Umsetzung der Richtlinie 2005/29/EG)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 23 Oct 2025
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26 Aug 2025 Acqua Minerale San Benedetto S.p.A.AGCM: San Benedetto removes ‘CO2 neutral’ claim on Ecogreen bottles Other
Labels, the website and commercials for the Ecogreen line claimed that bottle production caused no greenhouse gas emissions and even had a positive effect on the environment. Following an intervention by Italy's competition and consumer protection authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, AGCM) (moral suasion, case PS12596), the mineral water producer removed the claim ‘impatto zero CO2’ in mid-July 2025, revised nature motifs and added a QR code linking to sustainability information.
‘Zero emissions’ promises on packaging can hardly be substantiated; it is better to present specific reduction steps transparently.
Climate claims on packaging
- Authority / court
- Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- Codice del Consumo (unlautere Geschäftspraktiken), Verfahren PS12596
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Mitigating circumstances
- Voluntary amendment of all labels and advertising materials following the authority's intervention.
- Published
- 26 Aug 2025
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4 Aug 2025 Infinite Styles Services Co. Ltd (Shein)AGCM: 1 million EUR fine against Shein for misleading environmental claims €1m
Italy's competition and consumer protection authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, AGCM) objected to vague and in part false claims about circular design and recyclability, about the ‘green’ evoluSHEIN collection (only a small share of the range) and about emission targets, while emissions rose in 2023/2024. The ultra-fast-fashion model is subject to a heightened duty of care, the authority held; it imposed 1 million EUR (case PS12709).
Communicate climate targets and recycling promises only if they are specific, substantiated and consistent with actual developments.
Verifiable sustainability communication in online retail
- Authority / court
- Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- Codice del Consumo (unlautere Geschäftspraktiken), Verfahren PS12709
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 4 Aug 2025
- PS12709 - Italian Competition Authority: 1 million euros fine imposed on Shein for misleading and omissive green claims Press release of an authority
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27 Mar 2025 Aurivo Dairy Ingredients LimitedAurivo Dairy Ingredients: EUR 200,000 in fines for odour and wastewater offences €200,000
The company pleaded guilty to repeatedly breaching conditions of its industrial emissions licence at its Ballaghaderreen plant in 2022: odour nuisance, exceedance of limits for effluent and cooling water, impairment of the River Lung and late incident notifications to the EPA and Inland Fisheries Ireland. The court imposed fines totalling €200,000 for the two notification breaches and additionally ordered €150,000 to be paid over ten years to local community groups and Inland Fisheries Ireland for the river , plus investigation costs. Only the fines of EUR 200,000 are recorded as the amount.
Environmental incidents must be reported to the authority immediately through the prescribed channels; here it was the late notifications that proved most costly.
- Authority / court
- Sligo Circuit Criminal Court (Anklage: Director of Public Prosecutions nach Ermittlungen der Environmental Protection Agency)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits
- Legal basis
- Bedingungen 5.1, 5.3, 11.3 und 11.5 der Industrieemissionsgenehmigung P0802-03
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Published
- 27 Mar 2025
- EPA: DPP Prosecutes Aurivo Dairy Ingredients Limited (P0802-03) Enforcement database of an authority
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25 Mar 2025 Adidas (Sportartikelhersteller)Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court: Adidas may not claim 'climate neutral by 2050' without explanation Other
On an action by a consumer association, the Landgericht Nürnberg-Fürth (Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court) ordered Adidas to cease the former statement 'By 2050 we will be climate neutral' on its corporate website and to reimburse warning costs. The statement created the impression that the goal would be reached solely through the company's own emission reductions, although green electricity certificates were also to be used; a reference only in the linked annual report was not sufficient. According to the court's press release of 26 March 2025, the judgment was not final; whether an appeal was lodged is not known here.
Climate targets on a corporate website also count as advertising and must disclose there what role offsetting plays.
Climate targets on the corporate website as advertising
- Authority / court
- Landgericht Nürnberg-Fürth
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- UWG (irreführende Werbung); Az. 3 HK O 6524/24
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 26 Mar 2025
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21 Jan 2025 General Logistics Systems B.V., General Logistics Systems Italy S.p.A., General Logistics Systems Enterprise S.r.l. (GLS)GLS: €8m fine over misleading “Climate Protect” climate programme €8m
The AGCM (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, Italian competition and consumer authority) fined General Logistics Systems B.V., General Logistics Systems Italy S.p.A. and General Logistics Systems Enterprise S.r.l. EUR 8,000,000 jointly and severally because the “Climate Protect” environmental programme was promoted with vague, unsubstantiated environmental claims and misleading certificates of offset CO2 emissions. Subscription customers, including micro-enterprises, also had to pay an unrequested climate contribution that clearly exceeded the programme's costs, while large customers were exempted. The authority classified this as an unfair commercial practice under Art. 20, 21, 22 and 26(f) of the Codice del consumo (Italian Consumer Code) and prohibited its continuation.
Climate contributions and offsetting promises must be voluntary, transparently calculated and verifiable; passing the costs of an environmental programme on to customers while using it for self-promotion risks greenwashing proceedings.
Communicating carbon offsetting and environmental claims accurately
- Authority / court
- Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- Art. 20, 21, 22 und 26 lit. f Codice del consumo (D.Lgs. 206/2005); Sanktion nach Art. 27 Abs. 9 Codice del consumo
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 4 Feb 2025
- AGCM, Comunicato stampa PS12525 – Sanzione di 8 milioni al gruppo Gls per pratiche commerciali scorrette (04.02.2025) Press release of an authority
- AGCM, Provvedimento PS12525 (Adunanza del 21 gennaio 2025), General Logistics Systems B.V. u. a. Decision of an authority
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9 Oct 2024 two Italian providers of small electric carsAGCM: providers of small electric cars remove ‘100 % green’ advertising Other
On the websites for two small electric cars, the providers advertised with ‘100 % sustainable’, ‘100 % Green’, ‘zero emissions’ and ‘zero environmental impact’ without taking into account life-cycle phases or the emissions from electricity generation. Following an intervention by Italy's competition and consumer protection authority (AGCM) by way of moral suasion, the claims were removed.
Even for electric vehicles, absolute claims such as ‘zero emissions’ are misleading if manufacturing and electricity generation are left out.
Blanket environmental promises for electric products
- Authority / court
- Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- Codice del Consumo (unlautere Geschäftspraktiken)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Automotive
- Mitigating circumstances
- Voluntary removal of the claims following the authority's intervention.
- Published
- 9 Oct 2024
- AGCM, Suche nach Entscheidungen (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Company name anonymised since 9 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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10 Sep 2024 a French mineral water bottler belonging to a food groupÉpinal: environmental CJIP with a mineral water bottler for €2m €2m
The bottler used nine boreholes at two sites for which no sufficiently evidenced water-law authorisation existed, and applied treatments not permitted for natural mineral water (including UV, activated carbon and microfilters), which was prosecuted as deception (tromperie). In the environmental CJIP (convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, French deferred prosecution agreement) validated on 10 September 2024, the company undertook to pay a public interest fine of 2,000,000 EUR, to fund renaturation measures of up to 1.1 million EUR and to compensate associations.
Legacy authorisations for water abstraction and production processes must be regularly checked against current law, especially for protected product designations.
Water abstraction permits and permitted treatment of mineral water
- Authority / court
- Parquet d'Épinal (Procureur de la République); Validierung durch den Präsidenten des Tribunal judiciaire d'Épinal
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits
- Legal basis
- Art. L. 173-1, L. 214-1, L. 214-3 Code de l'environnement; Tromperie (Code de la consommation); Art. 41-1-2, 41-1-3 Code de procédure pénale
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Mitigating circumstances
- According to the CJIP, the company itself disclosed the impermissible treatments to the authorities in 2021, cooperated fully and remedied the failings; no health risk was found.
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 10 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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27 Jun 2024 BGH: advertising with ‘climate neutral’ only permissible with explanation in the advertisement itself Order
A manufacturer of fruit gums and liquorice (not named in the official press release) advertised in a trade journal that it had produced all its products ‘climate neutral’ since 2021, although this was achieved partly through offsetting. Germany's Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) prohibited the advertising following an action brought by the Centre for Protection against Unfair Competition (Wettbewerbszentrale): ambiguous environmental terms must be explained in the advertisement itself, since reduction and offsetting are not equivalent.
Companies advertising with ‘climate neutral’ must explain directly in the advertisement whether emissions are avoided or merely offset.
Legally compliant environmental and climate claims in advertising
- Authority / court
- Bundesgerichtshof (I. Zivilsenat)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- § 3 Abs. 1, § 5 Abs. 1, § 5a Abs. 1 und 3, § 8 Abs. 1 Satz 1 UWG
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Published
- 27 Jun 2024
- Bundesgerichtshof, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Court press release
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20 Mar 2024 a Dutch airlineAmsterdam District Court: airline advertising on sustainable flying misleading Other
In a collective action brought by a foundation, the Amsterdam District Court (Rechtbank Amsterdam) found that 15 of the airline's advertising claims were misleading and unlawful: they suggested sustainable flying or that offsetting products actually compensate for the climate impact, although biofuels and reforestation reduce it only marginally. The airline bears the costs of the proceedings; further claims were dismissed.
Offsetting and SAF offerings must not create the impression of climate-neutral travel; associations can challenge such claims in court.
Climate claims and offsetting offers in customer communication
- Authority / court
- Rechtbank Amsterdam
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- Wet oneerlijke handelspraktijken (Art. 6:193a ff. BW)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 20 Mar 2024
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26 Jul 2023 a German drugstore chainKarlsruhe court bans drugstore chain's 'climate/environmentally neutral' claims Order
On an action by Deutsche Umwelthilfe, the Landgericht Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Regional Court) ordered a German drugstore chain to stop advertising liquid soap, sun lotion and shower cream on the packaging as 'climate neutral' and a washing-up liquid as an 'environmentally neutral product'. In the court's view, the packaging of two of the products lacked essential information on the term; moreover, CO2 offsetting via, among other things, a time-limited forest protection project could in principle not deliver the promised lasting climate neutrality.
Anyone advertising climate neutrality through offsetting must explain on the packaging itself what is offset and must not promise a permanent effect that time-limited projects cannot deliver.
Climate-neutral claims based on CO2 offsetting
- Authority / court
- Landgericht Karlsruhe, Kammer für Handelssachen
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- § 5 Abs. 1 Satz 1, Abs. 2 Nr. 1 UWG; § 5a Abs. 1 UWG
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 26 Jul 2023
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2 Feb 2023 a Swedish dairy companySwedish dairy company: court bans the advertising claim 'netto noll klimatavtryck' Order
Following an action by the Konsumentombudsmannen (KO, Swedish Consumer Ombudsman), the Patent- och marknadsdomstolen (Patent and Market Court) prohibited the dairy company from using the claim 'netto noll klimatavtryck' (net zero climate footprint) or similar claims that give the impression that a product causes no climate footprint at all or that its climate impact has been fully offset when this is not the case. The prohibition is backed by a conditional fine (vite) of 1,000,000 SEK.
Climate neutrality claims based on offsetting must be accurate and fully substantiated for consumers at first glance, otherwise court bans are likely.
Climate-related advertising claims and offsetting claims
- Authority / court
- Patent- och marknadsdomstolen (Stockholms tingsrätt), auf Klage des Konsumentombudsmannen (KO)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Published
- 2 Feb 2023
- Konsumentverket, Nachrichten und Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 2 Feb 2025 · Direct link