This paper deals with \(\varepsilon \) -efficient and \(\varepsilon \) -properly efficient points with respect to a co-radiant set in vector optimization problems. In the first part of the paper, we establish a new nonlinear separation theorem for co-radiant sets in normed spaces. Subsequently, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions, via scalarization, for both \(\varepsilon \) -efficient and \(\varepsilon \) -properly efficient points in a general framework, without requiring any assumptions on the co-radiant set or convexity conditions on the sets under consideration. Consequently, our results are applicable in a broader range of settings than those previously addressed in the literature.
