To increase consumers' confidence in tourism services the Commission is creating a European Quality Label to ensure consistency in the assessment of the quality of the services offered to consumers.

Tourism Number of applications to funding Percentage of SMEs (and trend) in applications for tourism-related funding opportunities Number of entities adopting European Tourism Quality Label Number of destinations adopting the sustainable tourism development models promoted by the European Destinations of Excellence || Number of applications to funding (to all calls for proposals) in total: around 75 per year (average for 2011) Up to date, no calls for proposals were directly addressed to SMEs Up to date no entity adopting European Tourism Quality Label ...[+++] (action in elaboration) Number of European Destinations of Excellence awarded in total 98 (on average 20 per year – in 2007-10, in 2008-20, in 2009-22, in 2010-25, in 2011-21) || Number of applications to funding (to all calls for proposals) in total: more than 100 per year 30% of calls for proposals directly addressed to SMEs Coverage of 50% of the evaluation schemes eligible to participate in the European Tourism Quality Label 200 and more destinations adopting the sustainable tourism development models promoted by the European Destinations of Excellence (up to 30 per year).

The EESC believes it necessary to step up integrated, common foreign policy actions within the security industry, strengthening IPR protection under the WTO and the bilateral and multilateral European association agreements, guaranteeing equal access to international markets and procurement on the basis of reciprocity, increasing the weight of the EU in international standardisation and launching a quality label (euro security label).

Tourism Number of applications to funding Percentage of SMEs (and trend) in applications for tourism-related funding opportunities Number of entities adopting European Tourism Quality Label Number of destinations adopting the sustainable tourism development models promoted by the European Destinations of Excellence || Number of applications to funding (to all calls for proposals) in total: around 75 per year (average for 2011) Up to date, no calls for proposals were directly addressed to SMEs Up to date no entity adopting European Tourism Quality Label ...[+++] (action in elaboration) Number of European Destinations of Excellence awarded in total 98 (on average 20 per year – in 2007-10, in 2008-20, in 2009-22, in 2010-25, in 2011-21) || Number of applications to funding (to all calls for proposals) in total: more than 100 per year 30% of calls for proposals directly addressed to SMEs Coverage of 50% of the evaluation schemes eligible to participate in the European Tourism Quality Label 200 and more destinations adopting the sustainable tourism development models promoted by the European Destinations of Excellence (up to 30 per year).

The feasibility study examined several quality labels like Label Rouge, Freedom Food and Neuland, and additional independent European studies are ongoing in this area (Welfare Quality[7]; EconWelfare[8]; Q-PorkChains[9]; EAWP[10]).

The Communication outlines six quality criteria: transparency and honesty, authority, privacy and data protection, updating of information, accountability, and accessibility. It states the need to tailor these criteria according to particular audiences and describes the methods of implementing quality criteria including codes of conduct, self applied codes or quality labels, user guidance tools, filtering tools, and third party quality and accreditation systems. The Communication invites Member States and national and regional health ...[+++]authorities to implement the quality criteria, develop information campaigns, localise available information, and exchange information on how quality standards are implemented. It also notes that consideration will be given to the possibilities of establishing a system of recognisable Community seals of approval for Internet sites as part of the implementation of the European Union public health programme.