Key actions

Date

Actions under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation following its adoption

Mandatory performance requirements for the environmental sustainability of textile products

2024

Digital Product Passport for textiles with information requirements on environmental sustainability

2024

Mandatory requirements concerning green public procurement and Member State incentives

2024

Disclosure of the number of discarded products by large enterprises and their subsequent treatment, and measures on banning the destruction of unsold textiles

2024

Other actions on sustainable production and consumption

Empowering consumers in the green transition and ensuring the reliability of green claims

2022

Review of the Textile Labelling Regulation and considering the introduction of a digital label

2023

Revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for textiles and footwear

2024

Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules for apparel and footwear

2024

Initiative to address the unintentional release of microplastics from textile products

2022

Review of the Best Available Techniques Reference Document for the Textiles Industry

2022

Enforcing the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in the textile sector

As of 2023

Actions on waste challenges

Extended Producer Responsibility requirements for textiles with eco-modulation of fees and measures to promote the waste hierarchy for textile waste

2023

Launch of work on the setting of preparing for re-use and recycling targets for textiles 

2022

Enforcing the restrictions on exports of textile waste outside the OECD and developing criteria for distinguishing waste from second-hand textile products

As of 2023

Actions to enable the transition

Launch of the Transition Pathway for the Textiles Ecosystem

2022

Guidance on supporting uptake and partnerships for the circular economy between social enterprises and other actors, including in the textile sector

2022

Guidance on circular economy business models featuring the textile sector

2024

Launch of #ReFashionNow

As of 2022

New European Bauhaus to support sustainable textiles

As of 2022

Horizon Europe calls to support R&D in textiles

2021-2027

Adoption of common industrial technology roadmap on circularity

2022

Criteria for circular manufacturing of apparel under the Taxonomy Regulation

2022

Work on skills for the textiles ecosystem within the European Skills Agenda and the renewed European Alliance for Apprenticeships

As of 2022

Strengthening of market surveillance through cooperation between enforcement authorities and launch of EU Toolbox against counterfeiting

As of 2022