Brussels, 13 February 2024 – EURATEX and many other associations signed a joint statement to deepen the EU single market and to flag barriers. Recommendations:1. Renew the dynamic of European integration by deepening the EU’s Single Market to boost the EU’s competitiveness, improve living standards, and raise citizens’ income.2. Formulate a headline target with the…
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Brussels, 11 January 2024 – EURATEX and 22 industry associations sent a joint letter to the three EU Presidents to call on the EU and Mercosur leaders to rapidly conclude the trade negotiations on the remaining open points. Your excellency President Metsola, Your excellency President Michel, Your excellency President von der Leyen, We are writing…
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Brussels, 14 December 2023 – EURATEX welcomes and supports the EU Commission ambition to revise the Textiles Labelling Regulation No 1007/2011. EURATEX retains that the Regulation has overall served its purpose and delivered its overarching objectives, namely providing useful information to the consumer on the properties of the textile products. Nevertheless, in the light of…
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The clock is ticking. Time to permanently remove tariffs on sectors unrelated to the steel and aluminium and large civil aircraft disputes! Brussels/Washington – 7 December 2023. With less than a month before the reimposition of tariffs in the U.S.-EU steel and aluminium dispute on 1 January 2024, 87 sectors unrelated to the EU-U.S. steel…
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Your excellency President Metsola,Your excellency President Michel,Your excellency President von der Leyen, We are writing you on behalf of 19 European business associations, representing different European industrial sectors that create millions of jobs in Europe and provide an essential contribution to the wellbeing of the Europeans citizens. United, we are calling on the European Union…
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Brussels, 3 July 2023 – On 1 July, Spain took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden to take the lead on important EU policy files during the second half of 2023. The difficult economic and political context, resulting from the war in Ukraine and the consequences of the inflation…
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European business remains supportive of the objectives of the proposed directive on corporate sustainability due diligence (CS3D) and we urge co-legislators to work on a reasonable approach that is manageable for companies in practice. The European economy, including SMEs which will be impacted even if formally out of the scope, need a workable due diligence…
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Brussels, 17 April 2023 – More than 120 associations signed a joint statement to express their concern about the potential erosion or split of the legal basis of the Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste, as part of the co-decision process. The introduction of the internal market legal basis in the 1994 PPWD was intended…
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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, 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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