Editing Label (section)

===Compliance===
Labels of [[sustainability standards and certification]] such as [[organic food]] and [[Energy conservation|energy efficiency class]] labels are often intended to confirm compliance with relevant social and environmental considerations, enabling consumers and other purchasers to make more [[sustainable consumption|ethical decisions]] in terms of [[Sustainability measurement#Life cycle analysis|the environmental impact of products]].

Labels such as the [[Ecolabel#European Union|European Eco-label]] and those issued by sustainability standards organisations may be used by businesses and public bodies to confirm compliance. Public procurement regulations in the [[Government procurement in the European Union|European Union]] and the [[Government procurement in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] require that label requirements only include those which are "linked to the subject-matter of the contract".<ref>[[EUR-Lex]], [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32014L0024&qid=1672198822439 Directive 2014/24/EU of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC], Article 43, accessed 28 December 2022</ref>

In {{Dts|June 2023}}, the [[Scientific Advice Mechanism]] to the [[European Commission]] concluded that the effectiveness of food labelling related to health impacts was "low to moderate" according to available evidence, and that "shaping the information environment through labelling is necessary but not sufficient to advance healthy and sustainable diets".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Towards sustainable food consumption – SAPEA |url=https://sapea.info/topic/food-consumption/ |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

The approach of labels can involve a trade-off between [[Homo economicus|financial considerations]] and higher cost requirements in effort or time for the product-selection from the [[Overchoice|many]] available options.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=d’Adda |first1=Giovanna |last2=Gao |first2=Yu |last3=Tavoni |first3=Massimo |title=A randomized trial of energy cost information provision alongside energy-efficiency classes for refrigerator purchases |journal=Nature Energy |date=April 2022 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=360–368 |doi=10.1038/s41560-022-01002-z |bibcode=2022NatEn...7..360D |s2cid=248033760 |language=en |issn=2058-7546|doi-access=free |hdl=2434/922959 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>