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EURATEX welcomes EP improvement on the EC Due Diligence proposal

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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European Parliament does not recognise the strength and commitment of the European Textile Industry

Brussels, 1 June 2023 – Today, the European Parliament has adopted its Report on an EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. The Report wants to step up the EU’s ambition towards sustainability and circularity even further, but it has failed to recognise the strategic role of the European textile industry to scale up sustainability,…
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New Joint Business statement on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D)

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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Safeguarding the Internal Market Legal Basis of the Packaging and Packaging Waste

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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First Anniversary of the EU Textile Strategy – celebration or mourning?

Brussels, 31 March 2023. – On 30 March 2022, the European Commission presented its vision for the future of the textile industry[1]. The strategy mainly focuses on reducing the environmental footprint and promote sustainability and transparency in the value chain. EURATEX has welcomed the publication of the strategy, as it recognises the strategic importance of…
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New European initiative to support SMEs in transforming textile waste into value

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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Joint Business Statement on the due diligence proposal

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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European Innovation Council Summit 2022: EURATEX & CO2BIOCLEAN co-create innovative biobased polymers for the textile sector

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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EURATEX POSITION PAPER ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY DUE DILIGENCE

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 Position Paper on Apparel & Footwear Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR)

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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