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5.6. Final report GREECE
The Greek project activities are performed by SPEED SA. The members of SPEED
involved in the project were Mrs Maria Menounou, Project Manager and Mrs Georgia
Diamantakou Project Assistant. The secretarial assistance is provided by Mrs Eleni
Karatoliou.
On 11 June 2007 Maria Menounou changed to another company and was followed by
Stavros Tsourtis with eco technical experience and expertise. For the first time Maria will
be in touch with SPEED and help the placeholder in order to continue the smooth
cooperation we had.
5.6.1. Project result 2006 and situation 2007
The project results were not as expected. The interest was not high and the only
significant result was the personal contacts with some interested companies.
Greek project team made efforts to attract the members of the product groups, by emails,
phone calls, the aforementiones personal contacts and articles in the Press. The
results were the following:
� Bed mattresses. We came in contact with all bed mattresses producers which do
not have Ecolabel. We tried to come in contact with 9 companies included in the
data -base. We spoke with 8 of them and only Mr Evmorfides from COCOMAT
has a great interest and we had arranged a meeting with him on 6th of October
(at his premises). He is negative to apply for Ecolabel.
� All purposes cleaners. We had a meeting with Mr. Panos Skarlatos the general
manager of Hellenic Association of Chemical Industries (HACI) who is very
interested on the EU Eco-label and to make some steps towards the motivation
and awareness of some industries. The workshop that was planned to be
organized with his support was finally postponed. We also came in contact with
the Association of Detergent Industries, trying to get a contact with its members.
We tried to get in contact with some interesting manufacturers but we had no
feedback. As far as we were informed the detergent industries are not very
positive to the Ecolabel, because they believe that the criteria don not cover all
the significant environmental issues.
� Indoor paints and varnishes. Although, this sector is out of the suggested
target groups, we came in contact with one of the biggest industries in Greece,
VIVECHROM, producing paints and varnishes, which had no Ecolabel awarded
product, at that time. Finally the company applied for the Ecolabel. Until
10/10/2007 they have 6 products awarded and 4 new products are under
evaluation.
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