Brussels, 21 March 2023 – EURATEX and 30 other European NGOs and industry organisations signed a joint statement on products sold online entering the European market. All agreed that the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) will place obligations on European economic actors to have more durable and recyclable products, but the goods sold online will…
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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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Brussels, 19 January 2023 – The European business community supports an EU due diligence framework. However, it calls for realism, proportionality, and workability for this framework to truly enable and guide businesses in taking necessary steps towards more sustainable supply chains. The European business community supports an EU due diligence framework. However, it calls for…
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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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Brussels, 16 December 2022 – Following yesterday’s European Council summit and its conclusions on the measures to tackle the energy crisis, the European textiles industry is extremely concerned about the fast loss of competitiveness of Europe and demands urgent action to save the industry. The chain of factors determining this sharp decline in our competitiveness…
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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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An ambitious European industrial policy for a competitive and sustainable textiles and clothing sector Brussels, 14 December 2022. IndustriAll European Trade Union (industriAll Europe) and EURATEX call for actions to transform the sector without negatively impacting workers or European industry. The European textiles and clothing sector is set for a major transformation which will affect…
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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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