Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI)

FESI, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, welcomes the Commissions objective of establishing a harmonised registration and reporting format for packaging producers. A uniform EU approach is essential to prevent fragmentation and reduce administrative burden for companies operating across several Member States. FESI supports weight-based reporting for packaging, as reflected in Annex II.

FESI Position Paper AI OMNIBUS PROPOSAL February 2026 Summary: 1. Delayed Deadlines for High-Risk AI (“Stop the Clock” – Article 113) 2. AI Literacy (Article 4) 3. Registration of non-high-risk AI systems (Art. 6(3)-(4)) 4.

Opening of the attached position paper · the full paper is on the Commission’s record (source link above)

FESI (the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry) warmly welcomes the European Commissions ambition to present a Digital Package and launch a digital simplification agenda that will provide immediate relief to businesses while ensuring consistent and innovation-friendly application of EU rules.

Founded in 1960 FESI, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, is the unique pre-competitive platform representing the interests of the sporting goods industry in Europe, advancing its members priorities and promoting initiatives that benefit the sector, EU citizens and the society as a whole.

FESI, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Inception impact assessment on the review of the requirements for packaging and other measures to prevent packaging waste.

FESI welcomes the Commissions intention to revise the Taxonomy Climate and Environmental Delegated Acts to simplify the technical screening criteria. However, further targeted changes would still be needed to make Taxonomy usable and proportionate for our sector.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) and its members welcome the publication of the European Commission proposal for the targeted revision of the Waste Framework Directive. Overall, we believe that the proposal represents a good attempt at providing legal certainty for economic operators placing products on the internal market and at supporting the investment in the fibre-to-fibre recycling…

FESI welcomes the CSDDD proposal published by the European Commission. Based on learnings from decades of implementing human rights and environmental due diligence processes in members’ supply chains and a comprehensive review, FESI calls for the following amendments: 1.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) highly welcomes the opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s Inception Impact Assessment on “Sustainable corporate governance”. Among its membership, FESI counts a large number of companies that have been operating supply chain compliance management systems for several years.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) and its members welcome the publication of the European Commission proposal for a Directive on Substantiation of Green Claims. Overall, we believe that the proposal represents a good attempt at balancing the objective of harmonisation and the challenge of lacking a "one size fits all" methodology to assess products' environmental aspects, performance or…

On 4 March 2020, the European Commission published the Inception Impact Assessments “Carbon border adjustment mechanism”. FESI welcomes the possibility to provide comments to it and would like to take this opportunity to present its view on the different options put forward by the European Commission.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the consultation regarding a potential expansion of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to downstream products. FESI supports the Commission's objective to address carbon leakage and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.

FESI highly welcomes the European Commission’s ambition to adopt “new and revised rules increasing and harmonising the responsibilities of online platforms, and to reinforce the oversight over platforms’ content policies in the EU”. We agree that digital transformation has brought major benefits but also challenges, on top of which the online sale of counterfeit and dangerous products.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Commissions proposed delegated regulation on the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). FESI fully supports the goal of minimising the EUs contribution to global deforestation.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) welcomes the European Commissions initiative to simplify administrative burdens in environmental legislation. Representing around 1,800 companies,mostly SMEs,FESI supports reducing complexity while maintaining high environmental ambition.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI), representing around 1,800 manufacturers and 85% of the European sporting goods market, welcomes the European Commissions draft implementing act on the Digital Product Passport (DPP) Registry.

The European Sporting Goods Industry is a responsible sector and is committed to addressing the unintentional release of microplastics from textiles in a proactive manner that is science and risk-based, realistic, enforceable, and proven to provide effective impact.

The Sporting goods industry welcomes the opportunity to comment on the ‘Right To Repair initiative’. In the attached position paper you can see how our sector is building momentum to support the objectives of the EU Green Deal and has developed ambitious circular economy programs by improving new business models or investing in existing models including rental, resell and repairing.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) strongly support the Commissions proposal to facilitate intra-EU shipments of textile waste mixed with footwear for sorting and recycling. The proposal represents an important step forward in expanding textile recovery operations. However, footwear also needs a standalone green-list route that reflects its inherently multi-material composition.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) warmly welcomes the European Commissions forthcoming Communication on a "Strategic Vision for Sport in Europe: Reinforcing the European Sport Model". We strongly support this timely initiative and look forward to contributing to the reflections that will shape the next phase of EU sport policy.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI), representing around 1,800 sporting goods manufacturers covering 85% of the European market, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Commission's draft implementing act on the regulation and disclosure format on the disclosure of discarded unsold consumer products.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions call for evidence on the evaluation of Regulation (EU) No 608/2013 concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights.

The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to renew the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Regulation (GSP). FESI firmly believes that the GSP, including the GSP+ and EBA regimes, contributes to the competitiveness of products from and to the sustainable development of developing countries and has proven to help the latter becoming more competitive…