Which rules match

69 of 69 recorded obligations match. An EU-wide rule matches every member state; a rule scoped to all textiles matches every product.

1. 2013-09-01confirmedEU BPR (treated articles)A treated article may not be placed on the market unless every active substance in the biocidal products it was treated with, or incorporates, is on the list drawn up under Article 9(2) or…Names: Manufacturer importer · Markets: EU-wide
2. 2013-09-01confirmedEU BPR (treated articles)Where the manufacturer of a treated article makes a claim about its biocidal properties, or where the conditions attached to approval of the active substance require it, the person responsible for placing the article…Names: Manufacturer importer seller · Markets: EU-wide
3. 2013-09-01confirmedEU BPR (treated articles)Regardless of whether the Article 58(3) labelling duty is triggered, the person responsible for placing a treated article on the market must label it with any relevant instructions for use, including precautions, where that…Names: Manufacturer importer seller · Markets: EU-wide
4. 2013-09-01confirmedEU BPR (treated articles)A supplier of a treated article must, on request from a consumer, provide information on the biocidal treatment of that article within 45 days and free of charge.Names: Trader · Markets: EU-wide
5. 2013-09-01confirmedEU BPR (treated articles)The labelling must be clearly visible, easily legible and appropriately durable. Where the size or function of the treated article requires it, the labelling must instead be printed on the packaging, the instructions for…Names: Manufacturer importer seller · Markets: EU-wide
6. 2018-04-21confirmedPPE RegulationProtective clothing must meet the essential health and safety requirements, carry CE marking, and — for Category II and III — pass a conformity assessment involving a notified body.Names: Manufacturer · Markets: EU-wide
7. 2023-01-01confirmedAGEC product environmental information decreeProducers, importers and other first placers on the French market of textile products under category 11 of Article L. 541-10-1 (clothing, household linen, footwear) must state, for each stage, the country where weaving, dyeing…Names: Producer · Markets: France
8. 2023-01-01confirmedAGEC product environmental information decreeWhere synthetic fibres exceed 50 percent of product mass, the information sheet must carry the statement that the product releases plastic microfibres into the environment during washing.Names: Producer · Markets: France
9. 2023-01-01confirmedAGEC product environmental information decreeWhere recycled material is incorporated, the share is expressed as the overall mass proportion of recycled materials using the wording produit comportant au moins [x] pourcent de matières recyclées; leather articles are excluded from…Names: Producer · Markets: France
10. 2023-07-01confirmedDutch textile EPR decree (Besluit UPV textiel)Since 1 July 2023 producers placing newly manufactured clothing (consumer and workwear, CN chapters 61 and 62) and household textiles (CN heading 6302) on the Dutch market for the first time bear extended producer…Names: Producer · Markets: the Netherlands
11. 2024-07-01confirmedLatvian natural resources tax on textiles (textile EPR exemption)Since 1 July 2024 persons selling or using textile products (household textiles, clothing, clothing accessories, footwear) in Latvia pay natural resources tax of EUR 0.50 per kilogram, unless exempted by operating or joining a…Names: Producer · Markets: Latvia
12. 2024-12-13confirmedGPSRConsumer products not covered by sector-specific safety law must still be safe, carry traceability information, and have a responsible economic operator established in the Union.Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
13. 2025-01-01confirmedAGEC product environmental information decreeThe information duties apply from 1 January 2023 to operators with French-market turnover above EUR 50 million placing at least 25 000 units per year, from 1 January 2024 above EUR 20 million and…Names: Producer · Markets: France · Size threshold: Annual turnover above EUR 50 million and at least 25 000 units (2023); above EUR 20 million and 10 000 units (2024); above EUR 10 million and 10 000 units (2025)
14. 2025confirmedDutch textile EPR decree (Besluit UPV textiel)Each producer must ensure that at least 50 percent by weight of the textiles it placed on the market in the previous year is prepared for re-use or recycled in 2025, rising by 5…Names: Producer · Markets: the Netherlands
15. 2025confirmedDutch textile EPR decree (Besluit UPV textiel)Of the textiles that are recycled, at least 25 percent by weight must be fibre-to-fibre recycled in 2025, rising to 33 percent from 2030; producers report annually before 1 August on the previous calendar…Names: Producer · Markets: the Netherlands
16. 2025-01-01confirmedWFDMember states to set up separate collection of textile waste.Names: Member state · Markets: EU-wide
17. 2025-10-01confirmedFrench textile environmental cost (coût environnemental) decreeCommunicating the environmental cost of new or remanufactured textile products sold to consumers in France is voluntary since 1 October 2025; any manufacturer, importer or other placer on the market that chooses to communicate…Names: Producer · Markets: France
18. 2025-10-01confirmedFrench textile environmental cost (coût environnemental) decreeBefore any communication, the operator must publish on the designated public portal the environmental cost, its breakdown by impact category, the calculation date and the methodology version; the cost may be updated at most…Names: Producer · Markets: France
19. 2025-12-30confirmedEUDRRelevant commodities and relevant products may not be placed or made available on the market, or exported, unless all three conditions are met: they are deforestation-free; they were produced in accordance with the relevant…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
20. 2025-12-30confirmedEUDROperators must exercise due diligence in accordance with Article 8 before placing relevant products on the market or exporting them, in order to prove compliance with Article 3, and may not place them on…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
21. 2025-12-30confirmedEUDRArticles 3 to 13, 16 to 24, and 26, 31 and 32 apply from 30 December 2025. For operators that were established as micro-undertakings or small undertakings as at 31 December 2020 under Article…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
22. 2026-01-01confirmedFrance PFAS lawFrom 1 January 2026 the manufacture, import, export and placing on the market, paid or free, of clothing textiles, footwear, and waterproofing agents for clothing textiles and footwear intended for consumers that contain PFAS…Names: Economic operator · Markets: France
23. 2026-Q2indicativeTextile Labelling RegulationThe Commission plans a legislative proposal revising the Textile Labelling Regulation to introduce comprehensive physical and digital labelling; the call for evidence and public consultation closed on 15 April 2024 and the Have Your…Names: Manufacturer · Markets: EU-wide
24. 2026-07-01confirmedDenmark PFAS clothing banFrom 1 July 2026 businesses may not import or sell clothing or footwear for private use in which at least one component article contains total fluorine of 50 mg F/kg or more, nor waterproofing…Names: Economic operator · Markets: Denmark
25. 2026-07-10confirmedFrench ultra-fast fashion (mode ultra-express) lawFor clothing, household linen and footwear (category 11 of Article L. 541-10-1) sold online, the places of manufacture must be shown clearly on the digital platform, close to the price and in characters of…Names: Trader · Markets: France
26. 2026-07-19confirmedESPRFrom 19 July 2026 the destruction of unsold consumer products listed in Annex VII is prohibited. The prohibition does not apply to micro and small enterprises, and reaches medium-sized enterprises only from 19 July…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
27. 2026-07-19confirmedESPRAn economic operator not caught by the prohibition must not destroy unsold consumer products supplied to it for the purpose of circumventing that prohibition.Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
28. 2026-07-19confirmedESPRDelegated Regulation (EU) 2026/296 lists the only circumstances in which unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear covered by the ESPR destruction ban may still be destroyed (for example dangerous or non-compliant products, IP infringements,…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
29. 2026-07-20confirmedESPRThe Commission had to set up the digital product passport registry by 19 July 2026; it launched the registry, with a testing environment, on 20 July 2026. The economic operator placing a product on…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
30. 2026-09-01confirmedFrench ultra-fast fashion (mode ultra-express) lawPenalties (malus) in the textile EPR fee modulation for ultra-express products range from EUR 0.25 to 12 per product in 2026, EUR 0.50 to 14 in 2027, EUR 0.75 to 16 in 2028, EUR…Names: Producer · Markets: France
31. 2026-09-27confirmedEmpowering Consumers DirectiveDisplaying a sustainability label that is not based on a certification scheme, or not established by public authorities, is prohibited.Names: Trader · Markets: EU-wide
32. 2026-09-27confirmedEmpowering Consumers DirectiveMaking a generic environmental claim for which the trader cannot demonstrate recognised excellent environmental performance relevant to the claim is prohibited.Names: Trader · Markets: EU-wide
33. 2026-09-27confirmedEmpowering Consumers DirectiveMaking an environmental claim about the entire product, or about the trader's entire business, when it concerns only a certain aspect of the product or a specific activity of the business, is prohibited.Names: Trader · Markets: EU-wide
34. 2026-09-27confirmedEmpowering Consumers DirectiveClaiming, based on the offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions, that a product has a neutral, reduced or positive impact on the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, is prohibited.Names: Trader · Markets: EU-wide
35. 2026-09-27confirmedEmpowering Consumers DirectivePresenting requirements imposed by law on all products within the relevant product category on the Union market as a distinctive feature of the trader's offer is prohibited.Names: Trader · Markets: EU-wide
36. 2026-10-10scheduledEU PFHxA restrictionFrom 10 October 2026, textiles, leather, furs and hides in clothing and related accessories for the general public, footwear for the general public, and mixtures for the general public may not be placed on…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
37. 2027indicativeESPRThe Commission working plan 2025-2030 (COM(2025) 187, 16 April 2025) ranks textiles/apparel as the first-priority final product group with an indicative delegated act in 2027; the Have Your Say planning for the initiative Ecodesign…Names: Manufacturer · Markets: EU-wide
38. 2027-01-01scheduledFrench ultra-fast fashion (mode ultra-express) lawAdvertising for ultra-express fashion products and for brands using such practices, and their promotion by commercial influencers, is prohibited from 1 January 2027; influencer breaches carry an administrative fine of up to EUR 100…Names: Trader · Markets: France
39. 2027-06-17confirmedWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)Member States must transpose Directive (EU) 2025/1892 by 17 June 2027. The Directive was published in the Official Journal on 26 September 2025 and entered into force on 16 October 2025, the twentieth day…Names: Member state · Markets: EU-wide
40. 2027-06-17scheduledWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)Separately collected used and waste textiles and footwear are to be considered waste upon collection, unless handed over directly by end users and professionally assessed as fit for re-use at the collection point by…Names: Member state · Markets: EU-wide
41. 2027-Q4indicativeESPRThe Commission plans to adopt the ESPR delegated act setting ecodesign and digital product passport requirements for textiles in the fourth quarter of 2027. Under Article 4(4) its requirements apply no earlier than 18…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
42. 2027-10-10scheduledEU PFHxA restrictionFrom 10 October 2027, the same limits apply to textiles, leather, furs and hides for the general public other than clothing and related accessories, such as carpets, rugs, curtains, blinds, upholstery, textile wall coverings,…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
43. 2027-12-14scheduledEU Forced Labour RegulationProhibition on placing or making available on the Union market, and on exporting from it, products made with forced labour at any stage of production.Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
44. 2028-04-17scheduledWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)Member States must ensure that extended producer responsibility schemes for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc are established by 17 April 2028, so that producers bear extended producer responsibility for products…Names: Member state · Markets: EU-wide
45. 2028-04-17scheduledWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)Producers of products listed in Annex IVc must entrust a producer responsibility organisation with their EPR obligations, register in the national producer register of each Member State where they first make products available, and…Names: Producer · Markets: EU-wide
46. 2028-04-17scheduledWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)A producer established in another Member State must appoint, by written mandate, an authorised representative established in each Member State where it first makes covered products available; Member States may impose the same requirement…Names: Producer · Markets: EU-wide
47. 2028-04-17scheduledWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)Producers must finance collection, sorting for re-use, preparing for re-use, recycling and other treatment of used and waste covered products deposited at EPR collection points, for products first made available from national transposition or…Names: Producer · Markets: EU-wide
48. 2028-04-17scheduledWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)Member States must require producer responsibility organisations to modulate producer fees on the basis of ESPR ecodesign requirements relevant to waste prevention and treatment, and may additionally modulate fees to address ultra-fast and fast-fashion…Names: Member state · Markets: EU-wide
49. 2028-04-17scheduledWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)Member States must ensure that online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers of covered products obtain the producer registration number(s) in the register of the consumer Member State, and a self-certification,…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
50. 2029-04-17scheduledWaste Framework Directive revision (textiles and food waste)Articles 22a to 22d (textile EPR, register, producer responsibility organisations, waste textile management) apply to micro-enterprises only from 17 April 2029, one year after the general scheme deadline.Names: Producer · Markets: EU-wide · Size threshold: Enterprises employing fewer than 10 persons with annual turnover and annual balance sheet not exceeding EUR 2 million
51. 2030-01-01scheduledFrance PFAS lawFrom 1 January 2030 the same prohibition extends to every textile product containing PFAS, except textiles needed for essential uses, those contributing to national sovereignty for which no substitute exists, and technical textiles for…Names: Economic operator · Markets: France
52. 2030-07-19confirmedESPRFrom 19 July 2030 the prohibition on destroying unsold consumer products listed in Annex VII extends to medium-sized enterprises. Until that date it binds neither them nor micro and small enterprises, which the prohibition…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide · Size threshold: Medium enterprise
53. no date setconfirmedESPREconomic operators that discard unsold consumer products, directly or on their behalf, must disclose annually: the number and weight discarded per year by product type or category; the reasons for discarding and any derogation…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
54. no date setconfirmedESPRWhere information requirements so provide, a product may only be placed on the market or put into service if a digital product passport is available in accordance with the applicable delegated acts adopted under…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
55. no date setconfirmedESPRThe delegated acts establishing a digital product passport for a product group must specify, as appropriate: the data to be included pursuant to Annex III; the data carriers to be used; the layout and…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
56. no date setconfirmedPOPs RegulationSubstances listed in Annex I may not be manufactured, placed on the market or used, including as constituents of articles, above the concentration limits that Annex sets.Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
57. no date setconfirmedREACHA substance on its own, in a mixture or in an article for which Annex XVII contains a restriction may not be manufactured, placed on the market or used unless it complies with the…Names: Manufacturer importer seller · Markets: EU-wide
58. no date setconfirmedREACHAny supplier of an article containing a candidate-list substance above 0,1 % weight by weight must provide the RECIPIENT of the article with sufficient information, available to the supplier, to allow safe use of…Names: Manufacturer importer seller · Markets: EU-wide
59. no date setconfirmedREACHOn request by a consumer, any supplier of an article containing a candidate-list substance above 0,1 % weight by weight must provide that consumer with sufficient information, available to the supplier, to allow safe…Names: Manufacturer importer seller · Markets: EU-wide
60. no date setproposedGreen Claims DirectiveSubstantiation and independent verification of explicit environmental claims before they are made.Names: Trader · Markets: EU-wide
61. no date setconfirmedTextile Labelling RegulationTextile products may only be made available on the market where they are labelled, marked or accompanied by commercial documents in compliance with this Regulation.Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
62. no date setconfirmedTextile Labelling RegulationOnly the textile fibre names listed in Annex I may be used to describe fibre compositions on labels and markings. Those names are reserved to fibres whose nature corresponds to the Annex I description…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
63. no date setconfirmedTextile Labelling RegulationOnly textile products composed exclusively of the same fibre may be labelled "100 %", "pure" or "all", and those or similar terms may not be used for other products. A product containing no more…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
64. no date setconfirmedTextile Labelling RegulationA textile product must be labelled or marked with the name and percentage by weight of all constituent fibres, in descending order. By derogation, a fibre accounting for up to 5 % of total…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
65. no date setconfirmedTextile Labelling RegulationThe presence of non-textile parts of animal origin in a textile product must be indicated using the phrase "Contains non-textile parts of animal origin" on the labelling or marking, whenever the product is made…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
66. no date setconfirmedTextile Labelling RegulationTextile products must be labelled or marked to indicate their fibre composition whenever they are made available on the market, and that labelling or marking must be durable, easily legible, visible and accessible —…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
67. no date setconfirmedTextile Labelling RegulationThe manufacturer placing a textile product on the market must ensure the label or marking is supplied and that the information on it is accurate; where the manufacturer is not established in the Union,…Names: Economic operator · Markets: EU-wide
68. no date setproposedSpanish draft Royal Decree on textile and footwear EPRSpain has drafted a Royal Decree establishing an extended producer responsibility regime for textile and footwear products; public information ran from 1 July to 4 September 2025 and, as of 3 November 2026, the…Names: Producer · Markets: Spain
69. no date setscheduledFrench ultra-fast fashion (mode ultra-express) lawThe law defines mode ultra-express practices in new Article L. 541-9-1-1 of the Environment Code; the thresholds on the number of new product references and the criteria of weak incentive to repair, assessed per…Names: Producer · Markets: France

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