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BEUC strongly welcomes the announcement that the European Commission will be taking initiatives to empower consumers in the green transition through new information rights, protecting them from misleading practices and strengthening the enforcement of their rights. Such initiatives are urgently needed to allow consumers to play a more important role in achieving the sustainable consumption.

Fashion Revolution welcomes the Commission’s initiative to prevent ‘greenwashing’ and provide consumers with useful and reliable sustainability information. Founded in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, Fashion Revolution has become the world’s largest fashion activism movement, having mobilised millions of citizens, industry professionals and policy makers through research, education and advocacy.

BEUC welcomes the proposal on empowering consumers for the green transition in which the Commissions proposed some targeted amendments to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD) and the Consumer Rights Directive (CRD). However, we still see some need for improvement.

BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, disagrees with the Commission's proposal to postpone by two years the sector-specific sustainability reporting standards that the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires.

Fashion is a high-risk sector - The industry is a major driver of the climate crisis and human rights abuses. Fashion companies urgently need to disclose their human rights and environmental risks and impacts in a meaningful, standardised and machine-readable way to enable transparency and corporate accountability.