FERN, a UK-based environmental NGO, has released a report condemning the EU Ecolabel as lax and inadequate in assuring the environmental credentials of paper products bearing the seal. FERN’s report investigates the award of the EU Ecolabel to two photocopy brands, Golden Plus and Lucky Boss, which are manufactured by the Indonesian company, Pindo Deli. Pindo Deli is part of the Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) supply chain, which sells copy paper and fine printing paper under a variety of brands throughout the world, including in North America. As reported on the website illegal-logging.info, the FERN report concludes that the EU Ecolabel criteria for sustainable forest management for copy & graphic paper, and the revised draft version of the standard (December 2009), are very weak and not adequate to ensure that the most egregious forest operations are excluded. In addition, FERN maintains that the EU Ecolabel award process is non-transparent and contends that the EU Ecolabel should be withdrawn for Pindo Deli's brands of photocopy paper.  The FERN report is available for download at www.illegal-logging.info/uploads/FERNPindoDelifinal.pdf