H&M Group

Never before has it been more important to act on the climate crisis. Private sector has a critical role to play in the transition. As a global company and employer, H&M Group wants to be part of the solution. We strongly welcome and support the European Commission’s initiative to embed the EU climate neutrality objective by 2050 in legislation.

H&M Group welcomes the proposed revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) which aims to establish a harmonised Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for textiles and footwear across EU Member States. We advocate for unified EPR rules to drive a shift towards a more circular operating model in the fashion and textile industry.

The Waste Framework Directive (WFD) revision will play a crucial role in creating a closed-loop circular economy – also for the garment and textile industry. H&M Group welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the WFD roadmap consultation and calls for harmonisation of definitions and requirements across the EU.

H&M Group welcomes the opportunity to comment on the inception impact assessment ahead of the public consultation on sustainable corporate governance in 2021. We share the European Commission’s vision to establish a mandatory due diligence framework at European level to create leverage and enable building a global level playing field for companies to operate on sustainable terms.

Sustainability communication, at product and corporate levels, is essential to drive change. Transparency, through trustworthy, comparable and clear information, can empower customers to make sustainable choices for the environment, people and communities. It also incentivizes companies to track, measure, innovate and take initiatives.

H&M Group welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on Ecodesign for Sustainable Products and the development of product specific requirements. In our view, this will provide the needed granularity to drive change towards more circular, durable, and recyclable products and as such is a major milestone in the EU’s transition towards a circular economy.

As an industry, we have become increasingly aware of the issue of fibre fragmentation and its potential as a serious environmental pollutant. H&M Group is committed to researching and addressing the issue of microfibre emissions. H&M Group identifies five urgent needs of the industry to address along the product life cycle: 1.

H&M Group welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Commission's proposal for a revised Union Customs Code (UCC). This proposal strengthens the legal framework for customs and makes it suitable to address recent challenges.

H&M Group would like to thank the Commission for the opportunity to answer the consultation on the DPP service providers. Since service providers will be storing the large amounts of data about our products, we consider it important to provide comments on the security-, financial-, and assurance-related requirements.

H&M Group applaud the European Commission’s ambition to enable customers across the European Union to choose more sustainable products based on trustworthy, clear, comparable and harmonized information. We share the European Commission’s objective to address a lack of common effective enforcement at European level, as well as customers’ confusion due to a multiplication of labels and claims.

H&M Group appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions Call for Evidence on the revision of the Textile Labelling Regulation (TLR). Our recommendations are based on the experience gathered since the regulation was adopted in 2011.

H&M Group welcomes the opportunity to comment on the proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages. We do support the concept for a Directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union, by implementing a minimum wage methodology which is built on and does consider national context, because of the yet different circumstances in the European countries.