EURATEX

EURATEX acknowledges the progress made by EU public procurement directives but highlights persistent challenges, particularly for SMEs and specialized industries like textiles. Simpler and more flexible rules for SMEs Achievements: ESPD and digitalization have reduced administrative burdens. Challenges: Complex procedures and rigid selection criteria still hinder SMEs.

EURATEX, representing the European textile and clothing industry, welcomes the initiative to establish a voluntary 28th regime corporate framework. We support its aim to allow companies, including innovative ones, to operate across the Single Market under a single, harmonised set of rules.

EURATEX welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Commission consultation on revising the Public Procurement Directives. We strongly support the priorities of simplifying procedures, facilitating SMEs participation in tenders, strengthening green, social, and innovation criteria, and introducing European preferences for strategic sectors, which incentivise EU-based, reliable value chains from fibre to finished…

EURATEX welcomes the objectives of the Green Claims proposal to provide a level playing field for businesses, tackle green washing and help consumers to make informed decisions regarding the environmental impacts of products placed on the EU market.

The European textile and clothing industry is committed in supporting the EUs climate neutrality objective for 2050. The goal of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is crucial in ensuring that the EUs climate policies are not undermined by carbon leakage, and that industries globally are held to similar environmental standards.

Recognition of qualifications and skills of third-country nationals is increasingly relevant to the textile and apparel industry because demographic change, persistent shortages and the pace of industrial transformation are tightening labour markets in several regions and occupations. Skills portability policy that excludes third-country nationals risks missing an important dimension of labour market functioning.

Skills portability in the European textile and apparel industry is constrained less by the willingness of workers and employers to engage cross-border, and more by the practical difficulty of making skills and qualifications legible, comparable and trusted across national systems. A credible approach to skills transparency and digitalisation should therefore start from the realities of the ecosystem.

The European Apparel and Textile Confederation (EURATEX) welcomes the European Commissions initiative to simplify administrative burdens in environmental legislation. The textile and apparel sector is committed to the transition towards a circular and sustainable economy, but companies are increasingly confronted with overlapping regulatory obligations, fragmented national implementation, and duplicative reporting…

EURATEX welcomes the Commission proposal establishing the Digital Product Passport (DPP) Registry under the ESPR framework, at the same time, several clarifications are needed to ensure proportionality, legal certainty and operational feasibility for the European textile and apparel ecosystem, which is largely composed of SMEs.

The European textile and apparel industry welcomes the European Commissions intention to develop an Advanced Materials Act and supports its objective of accelerating innovation, manufacturing capacity and uptake of advanced materials in Europe.

EURATEX, the European Apparel and Textile Confederation, represents the interests of the European textile and clothing industry along the entire value chain from fibre producers and textile manufacturers to apparel companies and technical textile producers.

EURATEX, the European Apparel and Textile Confederation, appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback to the draft Implementing Act (IA) on the details and format for the disclosure of information on discarded unsold consumer products. Building on our previous input to the development of the draft legislation, we would like to provide additional remarks in the enclosed file.

EURATEX, representing the European textile and clothing industry (over 200,000 companies and 1.3 million workers), supports a strong EU Market Surveillance Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 to ensure consumer protection, fair competition and trust in EU legislation. Our sector is highly globalised and increasingly exposed to unfair competition from non-compliant products entering the EU market.

The European textile and apparel industry welcomes the initiative to simplify the Defence Procurement Directive. Strengthening Europes defence readiness requires procurement rules that secure resilient and autonomous supply chains for SMEs. Please find attached EURATEXs position paper in this call. Textiles are strategic enablers of Europes defence capabilities.

EURATEX, representing the apparel and textile industry in Europe, welcomes the opportunity to comment on the draft act amending Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 on Persistent organic pollutants and would like to highlight that the POP Regulation for C9C21 PFCAs contains two points that clearly deviate from the Stockholm Convention and could be detrimental to our industry.