On the 30th Of March the European Commission adopted four critical initiatives for ECRA members sector of activity. The newly adopted policies concerns the following: Sustainable Products Initiative This initiative will revise and expend the scope of the Eco-design...
Textile BREF Review Final Draft The Final Draft of the TXT BREF is now being made available to Article 13 Forum for its opinion. This is part of the formal adoption process. The Article 13 Forum plenary is planned for the 10th and 11th of May 2022. No substantial...
Update: As announced previously, the initiative aims to tackle microplastics unintentionally released into the environment. After the inception impact assessment, the Commission is now launching a full impact assessment consultation from 22nd February 2022 to 17th May...
An agreement between the European Parliament and the Council was adopted by the Parliament on limiting workers’ exposure to carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances by setting EU-wide occupational exposure limits. MEPs voted 686 votes in favour, 4 against and 4...
The European Commission has published its strategy for standardisation to modernise and consolidate the European standardisation system, develop a more strategic and coordinated approach to global standards-setting, make full use of EU industrial resources to...
The European Environment Agency (EEA) published a report assessing progress towards the main objective of waste prevention using textiles as a case study. The key take aways from the report are several measures specific to textile waste prevention.: Setting indicators...
