<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament:"The current criteria for the European ecolabel for the product category ‘All purpose cleaners and sanitary cleaners’ date from 2005 and, following their prolongation, will remain valid until 31December 2010. In line with Commission procedures, revision of the existing criteria began in 2009 and the resultant new proposal must be approved early in2010 so the criteria can be set and come into force at the beginning of2011.  The Commission has contracted the company DHI to manage the revision process for the criteria for this product category (as well as for hand dishwashing detergents). To date, two technical meetings have been held with a final meeting due on 14April2010.  A consensus proposal should emerge from that to be voted on and, if passed, approved during a Parliament part-session.  KH LLOREDA is a leading detergent and cleaning and homecare product manufacturer and marketing company firmly committed to respect for the environment.     This firm, like many others, finds reduction of permitted ecotoxicity levels (‘CDVtox’ values) below the limits already proposed in the first working meeting with the Commission (all-purpose cleaners: 19000L/functional unit; sanitary cleaners 90000L/100gr; window cleaners: 5000L/100gr) unacceptable for the following reasons:      —  the majority of its products would be excluded with these reduced limits; moreover, approximately 50% of ecolabelled products from southern Europe would lose their ecolabel status under these new criteria;      —  the European ecolabel would therefore finish by being such a small niche market that being present on this market would not interest any company of average importance (especially those from southern Europe); it would thereby lose its principal ‘raison d’être’, namely that many companies should wish to develop and market truly environmentally-friendly products.      In view of these facts and the obvious economic prejudice to small and medium-sized enterprises, Iwould like to ask the following questions:      1.  Does the Commission know about this situation?      2.  Will the Commission change its position on the further reduction of permitted ecotoxicity levels (‘CDVtox’ values)?      3.  If not, will the Commission take some specific measures to help this sector?"
Analyze carefully the text and assign it to the most relevant policy area among those listed below. Do not explain your answer and return only a number.
Policy area numbers: 1 = Macroeconomics
2 = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties
3 = Health
4 = Agriculture and Fisheries
5 = Labour, employment and pensions
6 = Education
7 = Environment
8 = Energy
9 = Immigration
10 = Transportation
12 = Law and Crime
13 = Social welfare
14 = Regional and Urban issues and Planning
15 = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues
16 = Defence
17 = Space, science, technology, and communications issues
18 = Foreign trade
19 = International affairs and foreign aid
20 = Governance and government
21 = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues
23 = Culture and media
[/INST]. Answer = [7]. </s>
The current criteria for the European ecolabel for the product category ‘All purpose cleaners and sanitary cleaners’ date from 2005 and, following their prolongation, will remain valid until 31December 2010. In line with Commission procedures, revision of the existing criteria began in 2009 and the resultant new proposal must be approved early in2010 so the criteria can be set and come into force at the beginning of2011.  The Commission has contracted the company DHI to manage the revision process for the criteria for this product category (as well as for hand dishwashing detergents). To date, two technical meetings have been held with a final meeting due on 14April2010.  A consensus proposal should emerge from that to be voted on and, if passed, approved during a Parliament part-session.  KH LLOREDA is a leading detergent and cleaning and homecare product manufacturer and marketing company firmly committed to respect for the environment.     This firm, like many others, finds reduction of permitted ecotoxicity levels (‘CDVtox’ values) below the limits already proposed in the first working meeting with the Commission (all-purpose cleaners: 19000L/functional unit; sanitary cleaners 90000L/100gr; window cleaners: 5000L/100gr) unacceptable for the following reasons:      —  the majority of its products would be excluded with these reduced limits; moreover, approximately 50% of ecolabelled products from southern Europe would lose their ecolabel status under these new criteria;      —  the European ecolabel would therefore finish by being such a small niche market that being present on this market would not interest any company of average importance (especially those from southern Europe); it would thereby lose its principal ‘raison d’être’, namely that many companies should wish to develop and market truly environmentally-friendly products.      In view of these facts and the obvious economic prejudice to small and medium-sized enterprises, Iwould like to ask the following questions:      1.  Does the Commission know about this situation?      2.  Will the Commission change its position on the further reduction of permitted ecotoxicity levels (‘CDVtox’ values)?      3.  If not, will the Commission take some specific measures to help this sector?