Directive (EU) 2025/1892 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 September 2025 amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste
- Citation
- Directive (EU) 2025/1892
- Jurisdiction
- EU
- Made by
- European Parliament and Council of the European Union
- Instrument
- Directive
- Status
- In force
What it requires (9 obligations)
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 after publication.
2027-06-17 Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Member states
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
Amends Directive 2008/98/EC by inserting Articles 22a to 22d (textile EPR, producer register, producer responsibility organisations, management of waste textiles) and Annex IVc (CN code list of covered products).
Article 2(1): Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 17 June 2027 at the latest. Article 3: the Directive enters into force on the twentieth day following publication (OJ L, 2025/1892, 26.9.2025).
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 they make available on the market for the first time.
2028-04-17 Scheduled Adopted, dates set, not yet in force
- Who it falls on
- Member states
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
17 April 2028 is 30 months after entry into force (16 October 2025). Article 22a(2) lets Member States also set up EPR for mattresses. Annex IVc covers CN chapters 61 and 62 (apparel and clothing accessories), headings 6301 to 6304 (blankets, bed, table, toilet and kitchen linen, curtains, furnishing articles), 6309 (worn clothing), 6504 and 6505 (headgear), 4203 (leather apparel and accessories) and 6401 to 6405 (footwear).
New Article 22a(1): Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that they make available on the market for the first time. Article 22a(14): Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes ... are established by 17 April 2028 in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, and 22a to 22d.
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 may only place products on a national market once registered.
2028-04-17 Scheduled Adopted, dates set, not yet in force
- Who it falls on
- Producers
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
Obligations reach producers through national transposing law (deadline 17 June 2027; schemes by 17 April 2028). Article 22b(10): the Commission must adopt an implementing act on a harmonised registration format by 17 April 2027; the Commission Have Your Say planning (initiative 18272) lists adoption for Q2 2027.
New Article 22c(1): Member States shall ensure that producers ... entrust a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations. New Article 22b(2)-(3): producers are required to register in the register of producers in each Member State; Member States shall only allow producers to make products available on the market for the first time where they or their authorised representatives are registered.
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 on producers established in third countries.
2028-04-17 Scheduled Adopted, dates set, not yet in force
- Who it falls on
- Producers
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
Applies to producers as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), of Directive 2008/98/EC (distance sellers to end users in another Member State).
New Article 22a(3), first and second subparagraphs; Article 22a(4) allows a producer responsibility organisation appointed by written mandate to meet this obligation on the producer behalf.
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 at the latest from 17 April 2028 (from 16 October 2025 where a compliant scheme already existed on that date).
2028-04-17 Scheduled Adopted, dates set, not yet in force
- Who it falls on
- Producers
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
Article 22a(9): Member States may also require producers to cover costs for covered products ending up in mixed municipal waste.
New Article 22a(8) lists the costs (collection, transport, sorting, preparing for re-use, recycling, compositional surveys, end-user information, research and development). Article 22a(10) (products first made available from 16 October 2025 where an EPR scheme is already established on that date) and Article 22a(11)(a)-(b) (from national transposition or at the latest from 17 April 2028).
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 practices based on product life span.
2028-04-17 Scheduled Adopted, dates set, not yet in force
- Who it falls on
- Member states
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
Recital 40 of the amending Directive cites width of product range, frequency of offers and repair incentives as possible criteria for identifying ultra-fast and fast fashion.
New Article 22c(5)(a): contributions are based on weight and, where appropriate, quantity and are modulated on the basis of the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. Article 22c(6): Member States may require modulation on the basis of producers practices ... based on the product life span resulting from such practices. Article 22c(7): the Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down fee modulation criteria.
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.
2029-04-17 Scheduled Adopted, dates set, not yet in force
- Who it falls on
- Producers
- Size threshold
- Enterprises employing fewer than 10 persons with annual turnover and annual balance sheet not exceeding EUR 2 million
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
Recital 33 notes that a Member State may maintain an existing EPR scheme covering micro-enterprises that was already in force when the amending Directive entered into force.
Point (12) of Article 1 adds to Article 41 of Directive 2008/98/EC: From 17 April 2029, Articles 22a, 22b, 22c and 22d shall apply to enterprises which employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million. Article 22c(20), second subparagraph, limits annual reporting by such enterprises to quantities placed on the market.
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 a re-use operator or social economy entity; all separately collected items must undergo sorting prioritising re-use.
2027-06-17 Scheduled Adopted, dates set, not yet in force
- Who it falls on
- Member states
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
Article 22c(11)-(12): social economy entities may run their own separate collection points and must report collected quantities to the competent authority at least once a year (Member States may exempt them under Article 22c(13)). Article 22d(6): Member States must carry out a compositional survey of mixed municipal waste by 1 January 2026 and every five years.
New Article 22d(2): used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected ... are considered to be waste upon collection. Article 22d(3): derogation for items directly professionally assessed as fit for re-use at the collection point. Article 22d(4)-(5): sorting operations and sorting requirements. Article 22d(8)-(9): shipments of used items assessed as fit for re-use must carry documentation and meet record-keeping requirements.
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, before allowing the producer to use the platform.
2028-04-17 Scheduled Adopted, dates set, not yet in force
- Who it falls on
- Economic operators (manufacturer, importer, distributor or responsible person)
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, clothing accessories, home textiles, footwear, leather
- Markets
- EU
The obligated parties are providers of online platforms within Chapter III, Section 4, of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 and fulfilment service providers as defined in Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.
New Article 22a(13), referring to Article 30(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act). Article 22a(15)-(16): equivalent information duties for fulfilment service providers, which must make best efforts to assess its reliability.
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