Brussels, 13 July – Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted its position on the Ecodesign Regulation, which aims to improve the environmental sustainability and circularity of products placed on the EU market, including textiles. While EURATEX recognises the importance of accelerating the green transition and welcomes the progress on the legislation, it regrets the EP’s approach…
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Brussels, 1 June– Today, the European Parliament has approved the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, which is set to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour throughout global value chains. EURATEX supports the establishment of transparent and accountable value chains and highlights that the European Parliament’s report has significantly improved from the European Commission’s proposal. Indeed,…
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Brussels, 21 February 2023 – Today, 43 partners of the RegioGreenTex project met in Brussels to kick start a three year project that should change the way we manage textile recycling. Regions for Green Textiles – known as RegioGreenTex –is a quadruple-helix partnership initiative aiming at mapping and reducing the difficulties, which currently exist in…
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Representatives of employers, trade unions, universities and the government met on 6-7 December in Belgrade to discuss how to meet the opportunities and challenges of the new EU Textile Strategy and changing market. Serbian textile, clothing, leather and footwear (TCLF) industries employ 60,000 workers in the home textiles, fashion and automotive supply chains. As an…
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Brussels, 20 December 2022 – On Monday, the European energy ministers reached an agreement on a price cap for natural gas wholesale prices. Despite welcoming the adoption of the instrument and the prospect to limit gas price speculations on the stock market, EURATEX considers the cap at 180 €/MWh to be still too high. Also,…
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On 7th November, on the occasion of the European Innovation Council Summit 2022, EURATEX took part in the EIC Greenhouse Gas Programme Summit. As the part of the satellite events of the EIC Summit, the EIC GHG Programme Summit included informal talks with business, industrial and regional partners, as well as receivers of the GHG…
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Brussels, 23 November 2022 – On Tuesday, EURATEX stated in a letter to EC President, Ursula von der Leyen, that any price cap above the level of 80€euro/MWh would not help the EU industry – the textile sector in particular – to survive the current crisis. Indeed, as early as July 2021, the wholesale gas…
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EURATEX fully appreciates and supports the importance of establishing transparentand accountable value chains. However, we believe key improvements shall beintroduced for the Directive to deliver on these goals, which as it currently standsis not the case.The current draft proposal brings the risk of heavily shifting responsibilities to smallerplayers in the supply chain. To avoid this,…
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EURATEX agrees with the need for a harmonized method to evaluate the environmental impact of products and welcomes the European Commission’s vision to develop the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology. EURATEX has identified several elements necessary to implement its full potential, as well as to break down the complexity of the term sustainability into individual,…
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Brussels, 18 October: Organised by EURATEX in partnership with the Portuguese Textile Association (ATP), the Porto Convention – Sustainability meets Competitiveness: How to Square the Circle? – took place on 13-14 October in Porto, Portugal, with nearly 250 entrepreneurs attending from all over Europe. They discussed the current challenges of the European textile industry and…
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