1.   Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that they make available on the market for the first time, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

2.   Member States may set up an extended producer responsibility scheme for the producers of mattresses in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

3.   Member States shall ensure that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in another Member State and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory appoints, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

Member States may provide that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in a third country and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory is to appoint, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

4.   Member States shall ensure that, if a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), so wishes, the obligations under paragraph 3 of this Article, if any, can be met, on the producer’s behalf, by a producer responsibility organisation appointed by written mandate. Where such a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

5.   The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes listed therein in line with the CN codes listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (*9).

6.   Member States shall clearly define the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with Article 8a(1), point (a).

7.   Member States shall ensure, in accordance with Article 8a(6), that relevant actors are involved in the implementation of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include at least:

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs of the following:

9.   Member States may decide that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc are to cover, partially or totally, the costs referred to in paragraph 8, point (a), of this Article, for waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc ending up in mixed municipal waste.

10.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time from 16 October 2025 if an extended producer responsibility scheme for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc is already established in the Member State in question in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a on that date.

11.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time:

12.   The costs to be covered referred to in paragraph 8 shall not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide the services referred to in that paragraph in a cost-efficient way and shall be established in a transparent way between the relevant actors in accordance with paragraph 7.

13.   For the purposes of compliance with Article 30(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms falling within the scope of Chapter III, Section 4, of that Regulation that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to consumers located in the Union obtain the following information from producers prior to allowing them to use their services:

14.   Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by 17 April 2028 in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, and 22a to 22d.

15.   Member States shall adopt measures to ensure that producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users located in the Union provide fulfilment service providers with the information referred to in paragraph 13 at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.

16.   Member States shall ensure that the fulfilment service provider, upon receiving the information referred to in paragraph 15 and at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, through the use of any freely accessible official online database or online interface made available by a Member State or the Union or through requests to the producer to provide supporting documents from reliable sources, makes best efforts to assess whether the information referred to in paragraph 15 of this Article is reliable and complete. For the purposes of this Directive, producers shall be liable for the accuracy of the information provided.

Member States shall ensure that:

17.   Without prejudice to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*11), if a fulfilment service provider suspends the provision of its service pursuant to paragraph 16 of this Article, Member States shall ensure that the producer concerned has the right to challenge the suspension of the fulfilment service provider before a court in one of the Member States where the fulfilment service provider is established.

1.   Member States shall establish a register of producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc (“register of producers”) to monitor compliance of those producers with Article 22a and Article 22c(1).

The Commission shall establish a website with links to all national registers of producers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. Member States shall inform the Commission about the link to their national registers of producers within 30 days of the launch of the registers. The information on each register of producers shall be easily accessible, publicly available and free of charge, machine readable, sortable and searchable, and respect open standards for third party use. The provision of information under this paragraph shall be without prejudice to preserving the commercial and industrial confidentiality of sensitive information in conformity with relevant Union and national law.

2.   Member States shall ensure that producers are required to register in the register of producers. To that end, Member States shall require the producers to submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make available textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc on the market for the first time.

3.   Member States shall only allow producers to make available on the market for the first time textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc where they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility, are registered in the Member State in question.

4.   The application for registration shall include the following information:

5.   Member States shall ensure that the obligations under this Article can, on the producer’s behalf, be met by a producer responsibility organisation by written mandate.

Where a producer has designated a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

6.   Member States shall ensure that the competent authority:

7.   The competent authority may refuse or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information laid down in paragraph 4 and related documentary evidence is not provided or is insufficient or where the producer no longer meets the requirements set out in paragraph 4, point (d).

8.   Member States shall require the producer, or, where applicable, the authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation, to notify the competent authority without undue delay of any changes to the information contained in the registration in accordance with paragraph 4, point (d), and of any permanent cessation as regards the making available on the market for the first time of the textile, textile-related or footwear products referred to in the registration. A producer shall be excluded from the register of producers if it has ceased to exist.

9.   Where the information in the register of producers is not publicly accessible, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers and fulfilment service providers concluding contracts for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users are granted access, free of charge, to the register of producers.

10.   By 17 April 2027, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register of producers based on the information requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc entrust a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations laid down in Article 22a on their behalf.

2.   Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations intending to fulfil the extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers in accordance with Article 8a(3), Articles 22a, 22b and 22d and this Article to obtain an authorisation from a competent authority.

3.   Member States shall lay down criteria regarding the qualifications that producer responsibility organisations need to have in order to be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers. In particular, Member States shall require the producer responsibility organisations to demonstrate the necessary expertise in waste management and sustainability.

4.   Member States may derogate from the obligation in paragraph 3, provided that by 16 October 2025 they have already laid down criteria ensuring that a producer responsibility organisation may be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers only where it shows its expertise in the field of waste management and those criteria ensure that the producer responsibility organisation will manage the waste in a sustainable manner and limit the impact of waste management on the environment.

5.   Without prejudice to Article 8a(4), Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations to ensure that the financial contributions paid to them by producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc:

6.   Where it is appropriate to address ultra-fast and fast-fashion practices and related overgeneration of waste from textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States may require the producer responsibility organisations to modulate the financial contribution on the basis of producers’ practices, concerning textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, based on the product life span resulting from such practices, the length of the useful life of those products beyond the first user, and the contribution to closing the loop of those products, by turning waste textiles into raw materials for new production chains.

7.   Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and ensure consistency with the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Article 4 in conjunction with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the fee modulation criteria for the application of paragraph 5, point (a), and paragraph 6 of this Article. Those implementing acts, which shall not concern the precise determination of the level of the contributions, shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of this Directive.

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisations establish a separate collection system for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, regardless of their nature, material composition, condition, name, brand, trademark or origin, in the territory of a Member State where they make those products available on the market for the first time. The separate collection system shall:

Any coordination among producer responsibility organisations shall remain subject to Union competition law.

9.   Member States shall ensure that the collection system referred to in paragraph 8:

10.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations are not allowed to refuse the participation of local public authorities, social economy entities or other re-use operators in the separate collection system established pursuant to paragraph 8.

11.   Without prejudice to paragraph 8, points (a) and (b), and paragraph 9, point (a), Member States shall ensure that social economy entities are allowed to maintain and operate their own separate collection points and that they are given equal or preferential treatment in the location of the separate collection points. Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that are part of the collection system in accordance with paragraph 9, point (a), are not required to hand over collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to the producer responsibility organisation.

12.   Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that operate their own separate collection points in accordance with paragraph 11 submit at least once a year to the competent authority information on the quantity by weight of the separately collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, specifying:

13.   By way of derogation from paragraph 12, Member States may exempt, partially or totally, social economy entities from the obligation to submit the information in paragraph 12, where the fulfilment of such reporting obligations would result in a disproportionate administrative burden on those entities.

14.   Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(2), producer responsibility organisations make available to end users the following information regarding sustainable consumption, including second-hand options, re-use and end-of-life management of textile and footwear with respect to the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that the producers make available on the market for the first time:

15.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisation provides the information referred to in paragraph 14 on a regular basis, and that the information is up to date and provided by means of:

16.   Where, in a Member State, multiple producer responsibility organisations are entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers, Member States shall ensure that those producer responsibility organisations cover the whole territory of the Member State, with the aim of providing uniform service quality of the separate collection system across the territory for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc.

Member States shall designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that producer responsibility organisations fulfil their obligations in a coordinated manner and in accordance with Union competition law. Member States in which only one producer responsibility organisation is entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers may designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that the producer responsibility organisation fulfils its obligations in accordance with the Union competition law.

17.   Member States shall require that producer responsibility organisations ensure the confidentiality of the data in their possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their authorised representatives.

18.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations publish on their websites, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(3), point (e):

19.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide for a transparent and non-discriminatory selection procedure for waste management operators, based on transparent award criteria, without placing any disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises, to procure:

20.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide, on an annual basis, the competent authorities with the information referred to in paragraph 18, points (a) and (b), including the relevant information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), required, on an annual basis, from the producers of the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that have been made available on the market for the first time. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations specify the quantity by weight in respect of the information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), points (iii), (iv) and (v).

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall require that, in respect of producers that are enterprises that employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million, producer responsibility organisations request those enterprises to submit, on an annual basis, only the information listed in paragraph 18, point (a), point (i).

The Commission shall amend Commission Implementing Decisions (EU) 2019/1004 (*12) and (EU) 2021/19 (*13) to include, in accordance with Article 37(7) of this Directive, the information referred to in the first subparagraph. The amended implementing acts shall address:

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that the collection, loading and unloading, transportation and storage infrastructure as well as other operations including handling of used and waste textiles, and subsequent sorting and treatment processes, receive protection from adverse weather conditions and potential sources of contamination in order to prevent damage and cross-contamination of the collected used and waste textiles. Separately collected used and waste textile shall be subject to a professional screening at the separate collection point or the sorting facility to identify and remove non-target items or materials or substances that are potential sources of contamination.

2.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are considered to be waste upon collection.

With regard to textiles other than the products listed in Annex IVc, as well as discarded unsold textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States shall ensure that the different fractions of textiles materials and textiles items are kept separate at the point of waste generation where such separation facilitates subsequent re-use, preparing for re-use, or recycling, including fibre-to-fibre recycling where technological progress allows. That separation shall be carried out in a cost-efficient way to maximise resource recovery and environmental benefits.

3.   By way of derogation from paragraph 2, used textile, textile-related and footwear products that are directly handed over by end users and directly professionally assessed as fit for re-use at the collection point by the re-use operator or social economy entities shall not be considered to be waste upon collection.

4.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are subject to sorting operations to ensure the treatment in line with the waste hierarchy.

5.   Member States shall ensure that sorting operations of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), comply with the following requirements:

6.   By 1 January 2026 and every five years thereafter, Member States shall carry out a compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste to determine the share of waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, where appropriate, in accordance with the CN codes referred to in Annex IVc. Member States shall ensure that, on the basis of the information obtained, the competent authorities may require the producer responsibility organisations to take corrective action to increase their network of collection points and carry out information campaigns in accordance with Article 22c(14) and (15). Member States shall ensure that the results of those surveys are available to the public.

7.   Member States shall ensure that, in order to distinguish between used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be inspected by the competent authorities of Member States for compliance with the minimum requirements set out in paragraphs 8 and 9 for the shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and monitored accordingly.

8.   Member States shall ensure that shipments arranged on a professional basis of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the minimum record-keeping requirements set out in paragraph 9 and are accompanied by at least the following information:

Member States shall ensure that the shipments referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph are appropriately protected against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, in particular, through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load, thereby maintaining the integrity and quality of the textiles for re-use throughout the transport process.

9.   Member States shall ensure that shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the following minimum record-keeping requirements:

10.   Member States shall ensure that, where the competent authorities or authorities involved in inspections establish that an intended shipment of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use is suspected of being waste, the costs of appropriate analyses, inspections and storage of used textile, textile-related or footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be charged to the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment.

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that they make available on the market for the first time, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

2.   Member States may set up an extended producer responsibility scheme for the producers of mattresses in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

3.   Member States shall ensure that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in another Member State and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory appoints, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

Member States may provide that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in a third country and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory is to appoint, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

4.   Member States shall ensure that, if a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), so wishes, the obligations under paragraph 3 of this Article, if any, can be met, on the producer’s behalf, by a producer responsibility organisation appointed by written mandate. Where such a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

5.   The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes listed therein in line with the CN codes listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (*9).

6.   Member States shall clearly define the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with Article 8a(1), point (a).

7.   Member States shall ensure, in accordance with Article 8a(6), that relevant actors are involved in the implementation of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include at least:

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs of the following:

9.   Member States may decide that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc are to cover, partially or totally, the costs referred to in paragraph 8, point (a), of this Article, for waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc ending up in mixed municipal waste.

10.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time from 16 October 2025 if an extended producer responsibility scheme for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc is already established in the Member State in question in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a on that date.

11.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time:

12.   The costs to be covered referred to in paragraph 8 shall not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide the services referred to in that paragraph in a cost-efficient way and shall be established in a transparent way between the relevant actors in accordance with paragraph 7.

13.   For the purposes of compliance with Article 30(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms falling within the scope of Chapter III, Section 4, of that Regulation that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to consumers located in the Union obtain the following information from producers prior to allowing them to use their services:

14.   Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by 17 April 2028 in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, and 22a to 22d.

15.   Member States shall adopt measures to ensure that producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users located in the Union provide fulfilment service providers with the information referred to in paragraph 13 at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.

16.   Member States shall ensure that the fulfilment service provider, upon receiving the information referred to in paragraph 15 and at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, through the use of any freely accessible official online database or online interface made available by a Member State or the Union or through requests to the producer to provide supporting documents from reliable sources, makes best efforts to assess whether the information referred to in paragraph 15 of this Article is reliable and complete. For the purposes of this Directive, producers shall be liable for the accuracy of the information provided.

Member States shall ensure that:

17.   Without prejudice to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*11), if a fulfilment service provider suspends the provision of its service pursuant to paragraph 16 of this Article, Member States shall ensure that the producer concerned has the right to challenge the suspension of the fulfilment service provider before a court in one of the Member States where the fulfilment service provider is established.

1.   Member States shall establish a register of producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc (“register of producers”) to monitor compliance of those producers with Article 22a and Article 22c(1).

The Commission shall establish a website with links to all national registers of producers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. Member States shall inform the Commission about the link to their national registers of producers within 30 days of the launch of the registers. The information on each register of producers shall be easily accessible, publicly available and free of charge, machine readable, sortable and searchable, and respect open standards for third party use. The provision of information under this paragraph shall be without prejudice to preserving the commercial and industrial confidentiality of sensitive information in conformity with relevant Union and national law.

2.   Member States shall ensure that producers are required to register in the register of producers. To that end, Member States shall require the producers to submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make available textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc on the market for the first time.

3.   Member States shall only allow producers to make available on the market for the first time textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc where they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility, are registered in the Member State in question.

4.   The application for registration shall include the following information:

5.   Member States shall ensure that the obligations under this Article can, on the producer’s behalf, be met by a producer responsibility organisation by written mandate.

Where a producer has designated a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

6.   Member States shall ensure that the competent authority:

7.   The competent authority may refuse or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information laid down in paragraph 4 and related documentary evidence is not provided or is insufficient or where the producer no longer meets the requirements set out in paragraph 4, point (d).

8.   Member States shall require the producer, or, where applicable, the authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation, to notify the competent authority without undue delay of any changes to the information contained in the registration in accordance with paragraph 4, point (d), and of any permanent cessation as regards the making available on the market for the first time of the textile, textile-related or footwear products referred to in the registration. A producer shall be excluded from the register of producers if it has ceased to exist.

9.   Where the information in the register of producers is not publicly accessible, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers and fulfilment service providers concluding contracts for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users are granted access, free of charge, to the register of producers.

10.   By 17 April 2027, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register of producers based on the information requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc entrust a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations laid down in Article 22a on their behalf.

2.   Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations intending to fulfil the extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers in accordance with Article 8a(3), Articles 22a, 22b and 22d and this Article to obtain an authorisation from a competent authority.

3.   Member States shall lay down criteria regarding the qualifications that producer responsibility organisations need to have in order to be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers. In particular, Member States shall require the producer responsibility organisations to demonstrate the necessary expertise in waste management and sustainability.

4.   Member States may derogate from the obligation in paragraph 3, provided that by 16 October 2025 they have already laid down criteria ensuring that a producer responsibility organisation may be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers only where it shows its expertise in the field of waste management and those criteria ensure that the producer responsibility organisation will manage the waste in a sustainable manner and limit the impact of waste management on the environment.

5.   Without prejudice to Article 8a(4), Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations to ensure that the financial contributions paid to them by producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc:

6.   Where it is appropriate to address ultra-fast and fast-fashion practices and related overgeneration of waste from textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States may require the producer responsibility organisations to modulate the financial contribution on the basis of producers’ practices, concerning textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, based on the product life span resulting from such practices, the length of the useful life of those products beyond the first user, and the contribution to closing the loop of those products, by turning waste textiles into raw materials for new production chains.

7.   Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and ensure consistency with the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Article 4 in conjunction with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the fee modulation criteria for the application of paragraph 5, point (a), and paragraph 6 of this Article. Those implementing acts, which shall not concern the precise determination of the level of the contributions, shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of this Directive.

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisations establish a separate collection system for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, regardless of their nature, material composition, condition, name, brand, trademark or origin, in the territory of a Member State where they make those products available on the market for the first time. The separate collection system shall:

Any coordination among producer responsibility organisations shall remain subject to Union competition law.

9.   Member States shall ensure that the collection system referred to in paragraph 8:

10.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations are not allowed to refuse the participation of local public authorities, social economy entities or other re-use operators in the separate collection system established pursuant to paragraph 8.

11.   Without prejudice to paragraph 8, points (a) and (b), and paragraph 9, point (a), Member States shall ensure that social economy entities are allowed to maintain and operate their own separate collection points and that they are given equal or preferential treatment in the location of the separate collection points. Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that are part of the collection system in accordance with paragraph 9, point (a), are not required to hand over collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to the producer responsibility organisation.

12.   Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that operate their own separate collection points in accordance with paragraph 11 submit at least once a year to the competent authority information on the quantity by weight of the separately collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, specifying:

13.   By way of derogation from paragraph 12, Member States may exempt, partially or totally, social economy entities from the obligation to submit the information in paragraph 12, where the fulfilment of such reporting obligations would result in a disproportionate administrative burden on those entities.

14.   Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(2), producer responsibility organisations make available to end users the following information regarding sustainable consumption, including second-hand options, re-use and end-of-life management of textile and footwear with respect to the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that the producers make available on the market for the first time:

15.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisation provides the information referred to in paragraph 14 on a regular basis, and that the information is up to date and provided by means of:

16.   Where, in a Member State, multiple producer responsibility organisations are entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers, Member States shall ensure that those producer responsibility organisations cover the whole territory of the Member State, with the aim of providing uniform service quality of the separate collection system across the territory for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc.

Member States shall designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that producer responsibility organisations fulfil their obligations in a coordinated manner and in accordance with Union competition law. Member States in which only one producer responsibility organisation is entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers may designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that the producer responsibility organisation fulfils its obligations in accordance with the Union competition law.

17.   Member States shall require that producer responsibility organisations ensure the confidentiality of the data in their possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their authorised representatives.

18.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations publish on their websites, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(3), point (e):

19.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide for a transparent and non-discriminatory selection procedure for waste management operators, based on transparent award criteria, without placing any disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises, to procure:

20.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide, on an annual basis, the competent authorities with the information referred to in paragraph 18, points (a) and (b), including the relevant information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), required, on an annual basis, from the producers of the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that have been made available on the market for the first time. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations specify the quantity by weight in respect of the information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), points (iii), (iv) and (v).

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall require that, in respect of producers that are enterprises that employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million, producer responsibility organisations request those enterprises to submit, on an annual basis, only the information listed in paragraph 18, point (a), point (i).

The Commission shall amend Commission Implementing Decisions (EU) 2019/1004 (*12) and (EU) 2021/19 (*13) to include, in accordance with Article 37(7) of this Directive, the information referred to in the first subparagraph. The amended implementing acts shall address:

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that the collection, loading and unloading, transportation and storage infrastructure as well as other operations including handling of used and waste textiles, and subsequent sorting and treatment processes, receive protection from adverse weather conditions and potential sources of contamination in order to prevent damage and cross-contamination of the collected used and waste textiles. Separately collected used and waste textile shall be subject to a professional screening at the separate collection point or the sorting facility to identify and remove non-target items or materials or substances that are potential sources of contamination.

2.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are considered to be waste upon collection.

With regard to textiles other than the products listed in Annex IVc, as well as discarded unsold textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States shall ensure that the different fractions of textiles materials and textiles items are kept separate at the point of waste generation where such separation facilitates subsequent re-use, preparing for re-use, or recycling, including fibre-to-fibre recycling where technological progress allows. That separation shall be carried out in a cost-efficient way to maximise resource recovery and environmental benefits.

3.   By way of derogation from paragraph 2, used textile, textile-related and footwear products that are directly handed over by end users and directly professionally assessed as fit for re-use at the collection point by the re-use operator or social economy entities shall not be considered to be waste upon collection.

4.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are subject to sorting operations to ensure the treatment in line with the waste hierarchy.

5.   Member States shall ensure that sorting operations of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), comply with the following requirements:

6.   By 1 January 2026 and every five years thereafter, Member States shall carry out a compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste to determine the share of waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, where appropriate, in accordance with the CN codes referred to in Annex IVc. Member States shall ensure that, on the basis of the information obtained, the competent authorities may require the producer responsibility organisations to take corrective action to increase their network of collection points and carry out information campaigns in accordance with Article 22c(14) and (15). Member States shall ensure that the results of those surveys are available to the public.

7.   Member States shall ensure that, in order to distinguish between used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be inspected by the competent authorities of Member States for compliance with the minimum requirements set out in paragraphs 8 and 9 for the shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and monitored accordingly.

8.   Member States shall ensure that shipments arranged on a professional basis of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the minimum record-keeping requirements set out in paragraph 9 and are accompanied by at least the following information:

Member States shall ensure that the shipments referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph are appropriately protected against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, in particular, through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load, thereby maintaining the integrity and quality of the textiles for re-use throughout the transport process.

9.   Member States shall ensure that shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the following minimum record-keeping requirements:

10.   Member States shall ensure that, where the competent authorities or authorities involved in inspections establish that an intended shipment of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use is suspected of being waste, the costs of appropriate analyses, inspections and storage of used textile, textile-related or footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be charged to the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment.

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that they make available on the market for the first time, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

2.   Member States may set up an extended producer responsibility scheme for the producers of mattresses in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

3.   Member States shall ensure that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in another Member State and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory appoints, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

Member States may provide that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in a third country and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory is to appoint, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

4.   Member States shall ensure that, if a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), so wishes, the obligations under paragraph 3 of this Article, if any, can be met, on the producer’s behalf, by a producer responsibility organisation appointed by written mandate. Where such a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

5.   The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes listed therein in line with the CN codes listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (*9).

6.   Member States shall clearly define the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with Article 8a(1), point (a).

7.   Member States shall ensure, in accordance with Article 8a(6), that relevant actors are involved in the implementation of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include at least:

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs of the following:

9.   Member States may decide that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc are to cover, partially or totally, the costs referred to in paragraph 8, point (a), of this Article, for waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc ending up in mixed municipal waste.

10.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time from 16 October 2025 if an extended producer responsibility scheme for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc is already established in the Member State in question in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a on that date.

11.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time:

12.   The costs to be covered referred to in paragraph 8 shall not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide the services referred to in that paragraph in a cost-efficient way and shall be established in a transparent way between the relevant actors in accordance with paragraph 7.

13.   For the purposes of compliance with Article 30(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms falling within the scope of Chapter III, Section 4, of that Regulation that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to consumers located in the Union obtain the following information from producers prior to allowing them to use their services:

14.   Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by 17 April 2028 in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, and 22a to 22d.

15.   Member States shall adopt measures to ensure that producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users located in the Union provide fulfilment service providers with the information referred to in paragraph 13 at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.

16.   Member States shall ensure that the fulfilment service provider, upon receiving the information referred to in paragraph 15 and at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, through the use of any freely accessible official online database or online interface made available by a Member State or the Union or through requests to the producer to provide supporting documents from reliable sources, makes best efforts to assess whether the information referred to in paragraph 15 of this Article is reliable and complete. For the purposes of this Directive, producers shall be liable for the accuracy of the information provided.

Member States shall ensure that:

17.   Without prejudice to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*11), if a fulfilment service provider suspends the provision of its service pursuant to paragraph 16 of this Article, Member States shall ensure that the producer concerned has the right to challenge the suspension of the fulfilment service provider before a court in one of the Member States where the fulfilment service provider is established.

1.   Member States shall establish a register of producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc (“register of producers”) to monitor compliance of those producers with Article 22a and Article 22c(1).

The Commission shall establish a website with links to all national registers of producers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. Member States shall inform the Commission about the link to their national registers of producers within 30 days of the launch of the registers. The information on each register of producers shall be easily accessible, publicly available and free of charge, machine readable, sortable and searchable, and respect open standards for third party use. The provision of information under this paragraph shall be without prejudice to preserving the commercial and industrial confidentiality of sensitive information in conformity with relevant Union and national law.

2.   Member States shall ensure that producers are required to register in the register of producers. To that end, Member States shall require the producers to submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make available textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc on the market for the first time.

3.   Member States shall only allow producers to make available on the market for the first time textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc where they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility, are registered in the Member State in question.

4.   The application for registration shall include the following information:

5.   Member States shall ensure that the obligations under this Article can, on the producer’s behalf, be met by a producer responsibility organisation by written mandate.

Where a producer has designated a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

6.   Member States shall ensure that the competent authority:

7.   The competent authority may refuse or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information laid down in paragraph 4 and related documentary evidence is not provided or is insufficient or where the producer no longer meets the requirements set out in paragraph 4, point (d).

8.   Member States shall require the producer, or, where applicable, the authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation, to notify the competent authority without undue delay of any changes to the information contained in the registration in accordance with paragraph 4, point (d), and of any permanent cessation as regards the making available on the market for the first time of the textile, textile-related or footwear products referred to in the registration. A producer shall be excluded from the register of producers if it has ceased to exist.

9.   Where the information in the register of producers is not publicly accessible, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers and fulfilment service providers concluding contracts for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users are granted access, free of charge, to the register of producers.

10.   By 17 April 2027, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register of producers based on the information requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc entrust a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations laid down in Article 22a on their behalf.

2.   Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations intending to fulfil the extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers in accordance with Article 8a(3), Articles 22a, 22b and 22d and this Article to obtain an authorisation from a competent authority.

3.   Member States shall lay down criteria regarding the qualifications that producer responsibility organisations need to have in order to be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers. In particular, Member States shall require the producer responsibility organisations to demonstrate the necessary expertise in waste management and sustainability.

4.   Member States may derogate from the obligation in paragraph 3, provided that by 16 October 2025 they have already laid down criteria ensuring that a producer responsibility organisation may be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers only where it shows its expertise in the field of waste management and those criteria ensure that the producer responsibility organisation will manage the waste in a sustainable manner and limit the impact of waste management on the environment.

5.   Without prejudice to Article 8a(4), Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations to ensure that the financial contributions paid to them by producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc:

6.   Where it is appropriate to address ultra-fast and fast-fashion practices and related overgeneration of waste from textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States may require the producer responsibility organisations to modulate the financial contribution on the basis of producers’ practices, concerning textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, based on the product life span resulting from such practices, the length of the useful life of those products beyond the first user, and the contribution to closing the loop of those products, by turning waste textiles into raw materials for new production chains.

7.   Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and ensure consistency with the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Article 4 in conjunction with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the fee modulation criteria for the application of paragraph 5, point (a), and paragraph 6 of this Article. Those implementing acts, which shall not concern the precise determination of the level of the contributions, shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of this Directive.

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisations establish a separate collection system for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, regardless of their nature, material composition, condition, name, brand, trademark or origin, in the territory of a Member State where they make those products available on the market for the first time. The separate collection system shall:

Any coordination among producer responsibility organisations shall remain subject to Union competition law.

9.   Member States shall ensure that the collection system referred to in paragraph 8:

10.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations are not allowed to refuse the participation of local public authorities, social economy entities or other re-use operators in the separate collection system established pursuant to paragraph 8.

11.   Without prejudice to paragraph 8, points (a) and (b), and paragraph 9, point (a), Member States shall ensure that social economy entities are allowed to maintain and operate their own separate collection points and that they are given equal or preferential treatment in the location of the separate collection points. Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that are part of the collection system in accordance with paragraph 9, point (a), are not required to hand over collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to the producer responsibility organisation.

12.   Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that operate their own separate collection points in accordance with paragraph 11 submit at least once a year to the competent authority information on the quantity by weight of the separately collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, specifying:

13.   By way of derogation from paragraph 12, Member States may exempt, partially or totally, social economy entities from the obligation to submit the information in paragraph 12, where the fulfilment of such reporting obligations would result in a disproportionate administrative burden on those entities.

14.   Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(2), producer responsibility organisations make available to end users the following information regarding sustainable consumption, including second-hand options, re-use and end-of-life management of textile and footwear with respect to the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that the producers make available on the market for the first time:

15.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisation provides the information referred to in paragraph 14 on a regular basis, and that the information is up to date and provided by means of:

16.   Where, in a Member State, multiple producer responsibility organisations are entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers, Member States shall ensure that those producer responsibility organisations cover the whole territory of the Member State, with the aim of providing uniform service quality of the separate collection system across the territory for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc.

Member States shall designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that producer responsibility organisations fulfil their obligations in a coordinated manner and in accordance with Union competition law. Member States in which only one producer responsibility organisation is entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers may designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that the producer responsibility organisation fulfils its obligations in accordance with the Union competition law.

17.   Member States shall require that producer responsibility organisations ensure the confidentiality of the data in their possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their authorised representatives.

18.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations publish on their websites, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(3), point (e):

19.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide for a transparent and non-discriminatory selection procedure for waste management operators, based on transparent award criteria, without placing any disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises, to procure:

20.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide, on an annual basis, the competent authorities with the information referred to in paragraph 18, points (a) and (b), including the relevant information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), required, on an annual basis, from the producers of the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that have been made available on the market for the first time. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations specify the quantity by weight in respect of the information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), points (iii), (iv) and (v).

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall require that, in respect of producers that are enterprises that employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million, producer responsibility organisations request those enterprises to submit, on an annual basis, only the information listed in paragraph 18, point (a), point (i).

The Commission shall amend Commission Implementing Decisions (EU) 2019/1004 (*12) and (EU) 2021/19 (*13) to include, in accordance with Article 37(7) of this Directive, the information referred to in the first subparagraph. The amended implementing acts shall address:

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that the collection, loading and unloading, transportation and storage infrastructure as well as other operations including handling of used and waste textiles, and subsequent sorting and treatment processes, receive protection from adverse weather conditions and potential sources of contamination in order to prevent damage and cross-contamination of the collected used and waste textiles. Separately collected used and waste textile shall be subject to a professional screening at the separate collection point or the sorting facility to identify and remove non-target items or materials or substances that are potential sources of contamination.

2.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are considered to be waste upon collection.

With regard to textiles other than the products listed in Annex IVc, as well as discarded unsold textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States shall ensure that the different fractions of textiles materials and textiles items are kept separate at the point of waste generation where such separation facilitates subsequent re-use, preparing for re-use, or recycling, including fibre-to-fibre recycling where technological progress allows. That separation shall be carried out in a cost-efficient way to maximise resource recovery and environmental benefits.

3.   By way of derogation from paragraph 2, used textile, textile-related and footwear products that are directly handed over by end users and directly professionally assessed as fit for re-use at the collection point by the re-use operator or social economy entities shall not be considered to be waste upon collection.

4.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are subject to sorting operations to ensure the treatment in line with the waste hierarchy.

5.   Member States shall ensure that sorting operations of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), comply with the following requirements:

6.   By 1 January 2026 and every five years thereafter, Member States shall carry out a compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste to determine the share of waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, where appropriate, in accordance with the CN codes referred to in Annex IVc. Member States shall ensure that, on the basis of the information obtained, the competent authorities may require the producer responsibility organisations to take corrective action to increase their network of collection points and carry out information campaigns in accordance with Article 22c(14) and (15). Member States shall ensure that the results of those surveys are available to the public.

7.   Member States shall ensure that, in order to distinguish between used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be inspected by the competent authorities of Member States for compliance with the minimum requirements set out in paragraphs 8 and 9 for the shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and monitored accordingly.

8.   Member States shall ensure that shipments arranged on a professional basis of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the minimum record-keeping requirements set out in paragraph 9 and are accompanied by at least the following information:

Member States shall ensure that the shipments referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph are appropriately protected against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, in particular, through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load, thereby maintaining the integrity and quality of the textiles for re-use throughout the transport process.

9.   Member States shall ensure that shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the following minimum record-keeping requirements:

10.   Member States shall ensure that, where the competent authorities or authorities involved in inspections establish that an intended shipment of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use is suspected of being waste, the costs of appropriate analyses, inspections and storage of used textile, textile-related or footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be charged to the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment.

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that they make available on the market for the first time, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

2.   Member States may set up an extended producer responsibility scheme for the producers of mattresses in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

3.   Member States shall ensure that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in another Member State and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory appoints, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

Member States may provide that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in a third country and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory is to appoint, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

4.   Member States shall ensure that, if a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), so wishes, the obligations under paragraph 3 of this Article, if any, can be met, on the producer’s behalf, by a producer responsibility organisation appointed by written mandate. Where such a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

5.   The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes listed therein in line with the CN codes listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (*9).

6.   Member States shall clearly define the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with Article 8a(1), point (a).

7.   Member States shall ensure, in accordance with Article 8a(6), that relevant actors are involved in the implementation of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include at least:

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs of the following:

9.   Member States may decide that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc are to cover, partially or totally, the costs referred to in paragraph 8, point (a), of this Article, for waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc ending up in mixed municipal waste.

10.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time from 16 October 2025 if an extended producer responsibility scheme for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc is already established in the Member State in question in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a on that date.

11.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time:

12.   The costs to be covered referred to in paragraph 8 shall not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide the services referred to in that paragraph in a cost-efficient way and shall be established in a transparent way between the relevant actors in accordance with paragraph 7.

13.   For the purposes of compliance with Article 30(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms falling within the scope of Chapter III, Section 4, of that Regulation that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to consumers located in the Union obtain the following information from producers prior to allowing them to use their services:

14.   Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by 17 April 2028 in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, and 22a to 22d.

15.   Member States shall adopt measures to ensure that producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users located in the Union provide fulfilment service providers with the information referred to in paragraph 13 at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.

16.   Member States shall ensure that the fulfilment service provider, upon receiving the information referred to in paragraph 15 and at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, through the use of any freely accessible official online database or online interface made available by a Member State or the Union or through requests to the producer to provide supporting documents from reliable sources, makes best efforts to assess whether the information referred to in paragraph 15 of this Article is reliable and complete. For the purposes of this Directive, producers shall be liable for the accuracy of the information provided.

Member States shall ensure that:

17.   Without prejudice to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*11), if a fulfilment service provider suspends the provision of its service pursuant to paragraph 16 of this Article, Member States shall ensure that the producer concerned has the right to challenge the suspension of the fulfilment service provider before a court in one of the Member States where the fulfilment service provider is established.

1.   Member States shall establish a register of producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc (“register of producers”) to monitor compliance of those producers with Article 22a and Article 22c(1).

The Commission shall establish a website with links to all national registers of producers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. Member States shall inform the Commission about the link to their national registers of producers within 30 days of the launch of the registers. The information on each register of producers shall be easily accessible, publicly available and free of charge, machine readable, sortable and searchable, and respect open standards for third party use. The provision of information under this paragraph shall be without prejudice to preserving the commercial and industrial confidentiality of sensitive information in conformity with relevant Union and national law.

2.   Member States shall ensure that producers are required to register in the register of producers. To that end, Member States shall require the producers to submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make available textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc on the market for the first time.

3.   Member States shall only allow producers to make available on the market for the first time textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc where they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility, are registered in the Member State in question.

4.   The application for registration shall include the following information:

5.   Member States shall ensure that the obligations under this Article can, on the producer’s behalf, be met by a producer responsibility organisation by written mandate.

Where a producer has designated a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

6.   Member States shall ensure that the competent authority:

7.   The competent authority may refuse or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information laid down in paragraph 4 and related documentary evidence is not provided or is insufficient or where the producer no longer meets the requirements set out in paragraph 4, point (d).

8.   Member States shall require the producer, or, where applicable, the authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation, to notify the competent authority without undue delay of any changes to the information contained in the registration in accordance with paragraph 4, point (d), and of any permanent cessation as regards the making available on the market for the first time of the textile, textile-related or footwear products referred to in the registration. A producer shall be excluded from the register of producers if it has ceased to exist.

9.   Where the information in the register of producers is not publicly accessible, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers and fulfilment service providers concluding contracts for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users are granted access, free of charge, to the register of producers.

10.   By 17 April 2027, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register of producers based on the information requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc entrust a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations laid down in Article 22a on their behalf.

2.   Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations intending to fulfil the extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers in accordance with Article 8a(3), Articles 22a, 22b and 22d and this Article to obtain an authorisation from a competent authority.

3.   Member States shall lay down criteria regarding the qualifications that producer responsibility organisations need to have in order to be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers. In particular, Member States shall require the producer responsibility organisations to demonstrate the necessary expertise in waste management and sustainability.

4.   Member States may derogate from the obligation in paragraph 3, provided that by 16 October 2025 they have already laid down criteria ensuring that a producer responsibility organisation may be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers only where it shows its expertise in the field of waste management and those criteria ensure that the producer responsibility organisation will manage the waste in a sustainable manner and limit the impact of waste management on the environment.

5.   Without prejudice to Article 8a(4), Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations to ensure that the financial contributions paid to them by producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc:

6.   Where it is appropriate to address ultra-fast and fast-fashion practices and related overgeneration of waste from textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States may require the producer responsibility organisations to modulate the financial contribution on the basis of producers’ practices, concerning textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, based on the product life span resulting from such practices, the length of the useful life of those products beyond the first user, and the contribution to closing the loop of those products, by turning waste textiles into raw materials for new production chains.

7.   Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and ensure consistency with the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Article 4 in conjunction with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the fee modulation criteria for the application of paragraph 5, point (a), and paragraph 6 of this Article. Those implementing acts, which shall not concern the precise determination of the level of the contributions, shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of this Directive.

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisations establish a separate collection system for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, regardless of their nature, material composition, condition, name, brand, trademark or origin, in the territory of a Member State where they make those products available on the market for the first time. The separate collection system shall:

Any coordination among producer responsibility organisations shall remain subject to Union competition law.

9.   Member States shall ensure that the collection system referred to in paragraph 8:

10.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations are not allowed to refuse the participation of local public authorities, social economy entities or other re-use operators in the separate collection system established pursuant to paragraph 8.

11.   Without prejudice to paragraph 8, points (a) and (b), and paragraph 9, point (a), Member States shall ensure that social economy entities are allowed to maintain and operate their own separate collection points and that they are given equal or preferential treatment in the location of the separate collection points. Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that are part of the collection system in accordance with paragraph 9, point (a), are not required to hand over collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to the producer responsibility organisation.

12.   Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that operate their own separate collection points in accordance with paragraph 11 submit at least once a year to the competent authority information on the quantity by weight of the separately collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, specifying:

13.   By way of derogation from paragraph 12, Member States may exempt, partially or totally, social economy entities from the obligation to submit the information in paragraph 12, where the fulfilment of such reporting obligations would result in a disproportionate administrative burden on those entities.

14.   Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(2), producer responsibility organisations make available to end users the following information regarding sustainable consumption, including second-hand options, re-use and end-of-life management of textile and footwear with respect to the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that the producers make available on the market for the first time:

15.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisation provides the information referred to in paragraph 14 on a regular basis, and that the information is up to date and provided by means of:

16.   Where, in a Member State, multiple producer responsibility organisations are entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers, Member States shall ensure that those producer responsibility organisations cover the whole territory of the Member State, with the aim of providing uniform service quality of the separate collection system across the territory for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc.

Member States shall designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that producer responsibility organisations fulfil their obligations in a coordinated manner and in accordance with Union competition law. Member States in which only one producer responsibility organisation is entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers may designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that the producer responsibility organisation fulfils its obligations in accordance with the Union competition law.

17.   Member States shall require that producer responsibility organisations ensure the confidentiality of the data in their possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their authorised representatives.

18.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations publish on their websites, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(3), point (e):

19.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide for a transparent and non-discriminatory selection procedure for waste management operators, based on transparent award criteria, without placing any disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises, to procure:

20.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide, on an annual basis, the competent authorities with the information referred to in paragraph 18, points (a) and (b), including the relevant information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), required, on an annual basis, from the producers of the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that have been made available on the market for the first time. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations specify the quantity by weight in respect of the information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), points (iii), (iv) and (v).

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall require that, in respect of producers that are enterprises that employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million, producer responsibility organisations request those enterprises to submit, on an annual basis, only the information listed in paragraph 18, point (a), point (i).

The Commission shall amend Commission Implementing Decisions (EU) 2019/1004 (*12) and (EU) 2021/19 (*13) to include, in accordance with Article 37(7) of this Directive, the information referred to in the first subparagraph. The amended implementing acts shall address:

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that the collection, loading and unloading, transportation and storage infrastructure as well as other operations including handling of used and waste textiles, and subsequent sorting and treatment processes, receive protection from adverse weather conditions and potential sources of contamination in order to prevent damage and cross-contamination of the collected used and waste textiles. Separately collected used and waste textile shall be subject to a professional screening at the separate collection point or the sorting facility to identify and remove non-target items or materials or substances that are potential sources of contamination.

2.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are considered to be waste upon collection.

With regard to textiles other than the products listed in Annex IVc, as well as discarded unsold textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States shall ensure that the different fractions of textiles materials and textiles items are kept separate at the point of waste generation where such separation facilitates subsequent re-use, preparing for re-use, or recycling, including fibre-to-fibre recycling where technological progress allows. That separation shall be carried out in a cost-efficient way to maximise resource recovery and environmental benefits.

3.   By way of derogation from paragraph 2, used textile, textile-related and footwear products that are directly handed over by end users and directly professionally assessed as fit for re-use at the collection point by the re-use operator or social economy entities shall not be considered to be waste upon collection.

4.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are subject to sorting operations to ensure the treatment in line with the waste hierarchy.

5.   Member States shall ensure that sorting operations of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), comply with the following requirements:

6.   By 1 January 2026 and every five years thereafter, Member States shall carry out a compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste to determine the share of waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, where appropriate, in accordance with the CN codes referred to in Annex IVc. Member States shall ensure that, on the basis of the information obtained, the competent authorities may require the producer responsibility organisations to take corrective action to increase their network of collection points and carry out information campaigns in accordance with Article 22c(14) and (15). Member States shall ensure that the results of those surveys are available to the public.

7.   Member States shall ensure that, in order to distinguish between used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be inspected by the competent authorities of Member States for compliance with the minimum requirements set out in paragraphs 8 and 9 for the shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and monitored accordingly.

8.   Member States shall ensure that shipments arranged on a professional basis of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the minimum record-keeping requirements set out in paragraph 9 and are accompanied by at least the following information:

Member States shall ensure that the shipments referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph are appropriately protected against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, in particular, through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load, thereby maintaining the integrity and quality of the textiles for re-use throughout the transport process.

9.   Member States shall ensure that shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the following minimum record-keeping requirements:

10.   Member States shall ensure that, where the competent authorities or authorities involved in inspections establish that an intended shipment of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use is suspected of being waste, the costs of appropriate analyses, inspections and storage of used textile, textile-related or footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be charged to the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment.

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that they make available on the market for the first time, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

2.   Member States may set up an extended producer responsibility scheme for the producers of mattresses in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

3.   Member States shall ensure that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in another Member State and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory appoints, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

Member States may provide that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in a third country and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory is to appoint, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

4.   Member States shall ensure that, if a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), so wishes, the obligations under paragraph 3 of this Article, if any, can be met, on the producer’s behalf, by a producer responsibility organisation appointed by written mandate. Where such a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

5.   The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes listed therein in line with the CN codes listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (*9).

6.   Member States shall clearly define the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with Article 8a(1), point (a).

7.   Member States shall ensure, in accordance with Article 8a(6), that relevant actors are involved in the implementation of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include at least:

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs of the following:

9.   Member States may decide that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc are to cover, partially or totally, the costs referred to in paragraph 8, point (a), of this Article, for waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc ending up in mixed municipal waste.

10.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time from 16 October 2025 if an extended producer responsibility scheme for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc is already established in the Member State in question in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a on that date.

11.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time:

12.   The costs to be covered referred to in paragraph 8 shall not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide the services referred to in that paragraph in a cost-efficient way and shall be established in a transparent way between the relevant actors in accordance with paragraph 7.

13.   For the purposes of compliance with Article 30(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms falling within the scope of Chapter III, Section 4, of that Regulation that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to consumers located in the Union obtain the following information from producers prior to allowing them to use their services:

14.   Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by 17 April 2028 in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, and 22a to 22d.

15.   Member States shall adopt measures to ensure that producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users located in the Union provide fulfilment service providers with the information referred to in paragraph 13 at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.

16.   Member States shall ensure that the fulfilment service provider, upon receiving the information referred to in paragraph 15 and at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, through the use of any freely accessible official online database or online interface made available by a Member State or the Union or through requests to the producer to provide supporting documents from reliable sources, makes best efforts to assess whether the information referred to in paragraph 15 of this Article is reliable and complete. For the purposes of this Directive, producers shall be liable for the accuracy of the information provided.

Member States shall ensure that:

17.   Without prejudice to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*11), if a fulfilment service provider suspends the provision of its service pursuant to paragraph 16 of this Article, Member States shall ensure that the producer concerned has the right to challenge the suspension of the fulfilment service provider before a court in one of the Member States where the fulfilment service provider is established.

1.   Member States shall establish a register of producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc (“register of producers”) to monitor compliance of those producers with Article 22a and Article 22c(1).

The Commission shall establish a website with links to all national registers of producers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. Member States shall inform the Commission about the link to their national registers of producers within 30 days of the launch of the registers. The information on each register of producers shall be easily accessible, publicly available and free of charge, machine readable, sortable and searchable, and respect open standards for third party use. The provision of information under this paragraph shall be without prejudice to preserving the commercial and industrial confidentiality of sensitive information in conformity with relevant Union and national law.

2.   Member States shall ensure that producers are required to register in the register of producers. To that end, Member States shall require the producers to submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make available textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc on the market for the first time.

3.   Member States shall only allow producers to make available on the market for the first time textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc where they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility, are registered in the Member State in question.

4.   The application for registration shall include the following information:

5.   Member States shall ensure that the obligations under this Article can, on the producer’s behalf, be met by a producer responsibility organisation by written mandate.

Where a producer has designated a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

6.   Member States shall ensure that the competent authority:

7.   The competent authority may refuse or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information laid down in paragraph 4 and related documentary evidence is not provided or is insufficient or where the producer no longer meets the requirements set out in paragraph 4, point (d).

8.   Member States shall require the producer, or, where applicable, the authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation, to notify the competent authority without undue delay of any changes to the information contained in the registration in accordance with paragraph 4, point (d), and of any permanent cessation as regards the making available on the market for the first time of the textile, textile-related or footwear products referred to in the registration. A producer shall be excluded from the register of producers if it has ceased to exist.

9.   Where the information in the register of producers is not publicly accessible, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers and fulfilment service providers concluding contracts for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users are granted access, free of charge, to the register of producers.

10.   By 17 April 2027, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register of producers based on the information requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc entrust a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations laid down in Article 22a on their behalf.

2.   Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations intending to fulfil the extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers in accordance with Article 8a(3), Articles 22a, 22b and 22d and this Article to obtain an authorisation from a competent authority.

3.   Member States shall lay down criteria regarding the qualifications that producer responsibility organisations need to have in order to be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers. In particular, Member States shall require the producer responsibility organisations to demonstrate the necessary expertise in waste management and sustainability.

4.   Member States may derogate from the obligation in paragraph 3, provided that by 16 October 2025 they have already laid down criteria ensuring that a producer responsibility organisation may be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers only where it shows its expertise in the field of waste management and those criteria ensure that the producer responsibility organisation will manage the waste in a sustainable manner and limit the impact of waste management on the environment.

5.   Without prejudice to Article 8a(4), Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations to ensure that the financial contributions paid to them by producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc:

6.   Where it is appropriate to address ultra-fast and fast-fashion practices and related overgeneration of waste from textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States may require the producer responsibility organisations to modulate the financial contribution on the basis of producers’ practices, concerning textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, based on the product life span resulting from such practices, the length of the useful life of those products beyond the first user, and the contribution to closing the loop of those products, by turning waste textiles into raw materials for new production chains.

7.   Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and ensure consistency with the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Article 4 in conjunction with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the fee modulation criteria for the application of paragraph 5, point (a), and paragraph 6 of this Article. Those implementing acts, which shall not concern the precise determination of the level of the contributions, shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of this Directive.

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisations establish a separate collection system for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, regardless of their nature, material composition, condition, name, brand, trademark or origin, in the territory of a Member State where they make those products available on the market for the first time. The separate collection system shall:

Any coordination among producer responsibility organisations shall remain subject to Union competition law.

9.   Member States shall ensure that the collection system referred to in paragraph 8:

10.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations are not allowed to refuse the participation of local public authorities, social economy entities or other re-use operators in the separate collection system established pursuant to paragraph 8.

11.   Without prejudice to paragraph 8, points (a) and (b), and paragraph 9, point (a), Member States shall ensure that social economy entities are allowed to maintain and operate their own separate collection points and that they are given equal or preferential treatment in the location of the separate collection points. Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that are part of the collection system in accordance with paragraph 9, point (a), are not required to hand over collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to the producer responsibility organisation.

12.   Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that operate their own separate collection points in accordance with paragraph 11 submit at least once a year to the competent authority information on the quantity by weight of the separately collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, specifying:

13.   By way of derogation from paragraph 12, Member States may exempt, partially or totally, social economy entities from the obligation to submit the information in paragraph 12, where the fulfilment of such reporting obligations would result in a disproportionate administrative burden on those entities.

14.   Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(2), producer responsibility organisations make available to end users the following information regarding sustainable consumption, including second-hand options, re-use and end-of-life management of textile and footwear with respect to the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that the producers make available on the market for the first time:

15.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisation provides the information referred to in paragraph 14 on a regular basis, and that the information is up to date and provided by means of:

16.   Where, in a Member State, multiple producer responsibility organisations are entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers, Member States shall ensure that those producer responsibility organisations cover the whole territory of the Member State, with the aim of providing uniform service quality of the separate collection system across the territory for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc.

Member States shall designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that producer responsibility organisations fulfil their obligations in a coordinated manner and in accordance with Union competition law. Member States in which only one producer responsibility organisation is entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers may designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that the producer responsibility organisation fulfils its obligations in accordance with the Union competition law.

17.   Member States shall require that producer responsibility organisations ensure the confidentiality of the data in their possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their authorised representatives.

18.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations publish on their websites, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(3), point (e):

19.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide for a transparent and non-discriminatory selection procedure for waste management operators, based on transparent award criteria, without placing any disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises, to procure:

20.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide, on an annual basis, the competent authorities with the information referred to in paragraph 18, points (a) and (b), including the relevant information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), required, on an annual basis, from the producers of the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that have been made available on the market for the first time. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations specify the quantity by weight in respect of the information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), points (iii), (iv) and (v).

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall require that, in respect of producers that are enterprises that employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million, producer responsibility organisations request those enterprises to submit, on an annual basis, only the information listed in paragraph 18, point (a), point (i).

The Commission shall amend Commission Implementing Decisions (EU) 2019/1004 (*12) and (EU) 2021/19 (*13) to include, in accordance with Article 37(7) of this Directive, the information referred to in the first subparagraph. The amended implementing acts shall address:

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that the collection, loading and unloading, transportation and storage infrastructure as well as other operations including handling of used and waste textiles, and subsequent sorting and treatment processes, receive protection from adverse weather conditions and potential sources of contamination in order to prevent damage and cross-contamination of the collected used and waste textiles. Separately collected used and waste textile shall be subject to a professional screening at the separate collection point or the sorting facility to identify and remove non-target items or materials or substances that are potential sources of contamination.

2.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are considered to be waste upon collection.

With regard to textiles other than the products listed in Annex IVc, as well as discarded unsold textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States shall ensure that the different fractions of textiles materials and textiles items are kept separate at the point of waste generation where such separation facilitates subsequent re-use, preparing for re-use, or recycling, including fibre-to-fibre recycling where technological progress allows. That separation shall be carried out in a cost-efficient way to maximise resource recovery and environmental benefits.

3.   By way of derogation from paragraph 2, used textile, textile-related and footwear products that are directly handed over by end users and directly professionally assessed as fit for re-use at the collection point by the re-use operator or social economy entities shall not be considered to be waste upon collection.

4.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are subject to sorting operations to ensure the treatment in line with the waste hierarchy.

5.   Member States shall ensure that sorting operations of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), comply with the following requirements:

6.   By 1 January 2026 and every five years thereafter, Member States shall carry out a compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste to determine the share of waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, where appropriate, in accordance with the CN codes referred to in Annex IVc. Member States shall ensure that, on the basis of the information obtained, the competent authorities may require the producer responsibility organisations to take corrective action to increase their network of collection points and carry out information campaigns in accordance with Article 22c(14) and (15). Member States shall ensure that the results of those surveys are available to the public.

7.   Member States shall ensure that, in order to distinguish between used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be inspected by the competent authorities of Member States for compliance with the minimum requirements set out in paragraphs 8 and 9 for the shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and monitored accordingly.

8.   Member States shall ensure that shipments arranged on a professional basis of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the minimum record-keeping requirements set out in paragraph 9 and are accompanied by at least the following information:

Member States shall ensure that the shipments referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph are appropriately protected against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, in particular, through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load, thereby maintaining the integrity and quality of the textiles for re-use throughout the transport process.

9.   Member States shall ensure that shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the following minimum record-keeping requirements:

10.   Member States shall ensure that, where the competent authorities or authorities involved in inspections establish that an intended shipment of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use is suspected of being waste, the costs of appropriate analyses, inspections and storage of used textile, textile-related or footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be charged to the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment.

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that they make available on the market for the first time, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

2.   Member States may set up an extended producer responsibility scheme for the producers of mattresses in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

3.   Member States shall ensure that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in another Member State and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory appoints, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

Member States may provide that a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), established in a third country and making textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc available for the first time on their territory is to appoint, by written mandate, a legal or natural person established on their territory as its authorised representative for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of a producer related to the extended producer responsibility scheme on their territory.

4.   Member States shall ensure that, if a producer as defined in Article 3(4b), point (d), so wishes, the obligations under paragraph 3 of this Article, if any, can be met, on the producer’s behalf, by a producer responsibility organisation appointed by written mandate. Where such a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

5.   The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes listed therein in line with the CN codes listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (*9).

6.   Member States shall clearly define the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with Article 8a(1), point (a).

7.   Member States shall ensure, in accordance with Article 8a(6), that relevant actors are involved in the implementation of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include at least:

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs of the following:

9.   Member States may decide that the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc are to cover, partially or totally, the costs referred to in paragraph 8, point (a), of this Article, for waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc ending up in mixed municipal waste.

10.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time from 16 October 2025 if an extended producer responsibility scheme for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc is already established in the Member State in question in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a on that date.

11.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article in relation to used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that are deposited at collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), where such products, including any used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that may have been collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(8), were made available on the market for the first time:

12.   The costs to be covered referred to in paragraph 8 shall not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide the services referred to in that paragraph in a cost-efficient way and shall be established in a transparent way between the relevant actors in accordance with paragraph 7.

13.   For the purposes of compliance with Article 30(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms falling within the scope of Chapter III, Section 4, of that Regulation that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to consumers located in the Union obtain the following information from producers prior to allowing them to use their services:

14.   Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by 17 April 2028 in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, and 22a to 22d.

15.   Member States shall adopt measures to ensure that producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users located in the Union provide fulfilment service providers with the information referred to in paragraph 13 at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.

16.   Member States shall ensure that the fulfilment service provider, upon receiving the information referred to in paragraph 15 and at the moment of the conclusion of the contract between the fulfilment service provider and the producer for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, through the use of any freely accessible official online database or online interface made available by a Member State or the Union or through requests to the producer to provide supporting documents from reliable sources, makes best efforts to assess whether the information referred to in paragraph 15 of this Article is reliable and complete. For the purposes of this Directive, producers shall be liable for the accuracy of the information provided.

Member States shall ensure that:

17.   Without prejudice to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*11), if a fulfilment service provider suspends the provision of its service pursuant to paragraph 16 of this Article, Member States shall ensure that the producer concerned has the right to challenge the suspension of the fulfilment service provider before a court in one of the Member States where the fulfilment service provider is established.

1.   Member States shall establish a register of producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc (“register of producers”) to monitor compliance of those producers with Article 22a and Article 22c(1).

The Commission shall establish a website with links to all national registers of producers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. Member States shall inform the Commission about the link to their national registers of producers within 30 days of the launch of the registers. The information on each register of producers shall be easily accessible, publicly available and free of charge, machine readable, sortable and searchable, and respect open standards for third party use. The provision of information under this paragraph shall be without prejudice to preserving the commercial and industrial confidentiality of sensitive information in conformity with relevant Union and national law.

2.   Member States shall ensure that producers are required to register in the register of producers. To that end, Member States shall require the producers to submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make available textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc on the market for the first time.

3.   Member States shall only allow producers to make available on the market for the first time textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc where they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility, are registered in the Member State in question.

4.   The application for registration shall include the following information:

5.   Member States shall ensure that the obligations under this Article can, on the producer’s behalf, be met by a producer responsibility organisation by written mandate.

Where a producer has designated a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

6.   Member States shall ensure that the competent authority:

7.   The competent authority may refuse or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information laid down in paragraph 4 and related documentary evidence is not provided or is insufficient or where the producer no longer meets the requirements set out in paragraph 4, point (d).

8.   Member States shall require the producer, or, where applicable, the authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation, to notify the competent authority without undue delay of any changes to the information contained in the registration in accordance with paragraph 4, point (d), and of any permanent cessation as regards the making available on the market for the first time of the textile, textile-related or footwear products referred to in the registration. A producer shall be excluded from the register of producers if it has ceased to exist.

9.   Where the information in the register of producers is not publicly accessible, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers and fulfilment service providers concluding contracts for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users are granted access, free of charge, to the register of producers.

10.   By 17 April 2027, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register of producers based on the information requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc entrust a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations laid down in Article 22a on their behalf.

2.   Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations intending to fulfil the extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers in accordance with Article 8a(3), Articles 22a, 22b and 22d and this Article to obtain an authorisation from a competent authority.

3.   Member States shall lay down criteria regarding the qualifications that producer responsibility organisations need to have in order to be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers. In particular, Member States shall require the producer responsibility organisations to demonstrate the necessary expertise in waste management and sustainability.

4.   Member States may derogate from the obligation in paragraph 3, provided that by 16 October 2025 they have already laid down criteria ensuring that a producer responsibility organisation may be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers only where it shows its expertise in the field of waste management and those criteria ensure that the producer responsibility organisation will manage the waste in a sustainable manner and limit the impact of waste management on the environment.

5.   Without prejudice to Article 8a(4), Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations to ensure that the financial contributions paid to them by producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc:

6.   Where it is appropriate to address ultra-fast and fast-fashion practices and related overgeneration of waste from textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States may require the producer responsibility organisations to modulate the financial contribution on the basis of producers’ practices, concerning textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, based on the product life span resulting from such practices, the length of the useful life of those products beyond the first user, and the contribution to closing the loop of those products, by turning waste textiles into raw materials for new production chains.

7.   Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and ensure consistency with the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Article 4 in conjunction with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the fee modulation criteria for the application of paragraph 5, point (a), and paragraph 6 of this Article. Those implementing acts, which shall not concern the precise determination of the level of the contributions, shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of this Directive.

8.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisations establish a separate collection system for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, regardless of their nature, material composition, condition, name, brand, trademark or origin, in the territory of a Member State where they make those products available on the market for the first time. The separate collection system shall:

Any coordination among producer responsibility organisations shall remain subject to Union competition law.

9.   Member States shall ensure that the collection system referred to in paragraph 8:

10.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations are not allowed to refuse the participation of local public authorities, social economy entities or other re-use operators in the separate collection system established pursuant to paragraph 8.

11.   Without prejudice to paragraph 8, points (a) and (b), and paragraph 9, point (a), Member States shall ensure that social economy entities are allowed to maintain and operate their own separate collection points and that they are given equal or preferential treatment in the location of the separate collection points. Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that are part of the collection system in accordance with paragraph 9, point (a), are not required to hand over collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to the producer responsibility organisation.

12.   Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that operate their own separate collection points in accordance with paragraph 11 submit at least once a year to the competent authority information on the quantity by weight of the separately collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, specifying:

13.   By way of derogation from paragraph 12, Member States may exempt, partially or totally, social economy entities from the obligation to submit the information in paragraph 12, where the fulfilment of such reporting obligations would result in a disproportionate administrative burden on those entities.

14.   Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(2), producer responsibility organisations make available to end users the following information regarding sustainable consumption, including second-hand options, re-use and end-of-life management of textile and footwear with respect to the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that the producers make available on the market for the first time:

15.   Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisation provides the information referred to in paragraph 14 on a regular basis, and that the information is up to date and provided by means of:

16.   Where, in a Member State, multiple producer responsibility organisations are entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers, Member States shall ensure that those producer responsibility organisations cover the whole territory of the Member State, with the aim of providing uniform service quality of the separate collection system across the territory for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc.

Member States shall designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that producer responsibility organisations fulfil their obligations in a coordinated manner and in accordance with Union competition law. Member States in which only one producer responsibility organisation is entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers may designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that the producer responsibility organisation fulfils its obligations in accordance with the Union competition law.

17.   Member States shall require that producer responsibility organisations ensure the confidentiality of the data in their possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their authorised representatives.

18.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations publish on their websites, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(3), point (e):

19.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide for a transparent and non-discriminatory selection procedure for waste management operators, based on transparent award criteria, without placing any disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises, to procure:

20.   Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide, on an annual basis, the competent authorities with the information referred to in paragraph 18, points (a) and (b), including the relevant information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), required, on an annual basis, from the producers of the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that have been made available on the market for the first time. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations specify the quantity by weight in respect of the information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), points (iii), (iv) and (v).

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall require that, in respect of producers that are enterprises that employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million, producer responsibility organisations request those enterprises to submit, on an annual basis, only the information listed in paragraph 18, point (a), point (i).

The Commission shall amend Commission Implementing Decisions (EU) 2019/1004 (*12) and (EU) 2021/19 (*13) to include, in accordance with Article 37(7) of this Directive, the information referred to in the first subparagraph. The amended implementing acts shall address:

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

1.   Member States shall ensure that the collection, loading and unloading, transportation and storage infrastructure as well as other operations including handling of used and waste textiles, and subsequent sorting and treatment processes, receive protection from adverse weather conditions and potential sources of contamination in order to prevent damage and cross-contamination of the collected used and waste textiles. Separately collected used and waste textile shall be subject to a professional screening at the separate collection point or the sorting facility to identify and remove non-target items or materials or substances that are potential sources of contamination.

2.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are considered to be waste upon collection.

With regard to textiles other than the products listed in Annex IVc, as well as discarded unsold textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States shall ensure that the different fractions of textiles materials and textiles items are kept separate at the point of waste generation where such separation facilitates subsequent re-use, preparing for re-use, or recycling, including fibre-to-fibre recycling where technological progress allows. That separation shall be carried out in a cost-efficient way to maximise resource recovery and environmental benefits.

3.   By way of derogation from paragraph 2, used textile, textile-related and footwear products that are directly handed over by end users and directly professionally assessed as fit for re-use at the collection point by the re-use operator or social economy entities shall not be considered to be waste upon collection.

4.   Member States shall ensure that used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), are subject to sorting operations to ensure the treatment in line with the waste hierarchy.

5.   Member States shall ensure that sorting operations of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), comply with the following requirements:

6.   By 1 January 2026 and every five years thereafter, Member States shall carry out a compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste to determine the share of waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, where appropriate, in accordance with the CN codes referred to in Annex IVc. Member States shall ensure that, on the basis of the information obtained, the competent authorities may require the producer responsibility organisations to take corrective action to increase their network of collection points and carry out information campaigns in accordance with Article 22c(14) and (15). Member States shall ensure that the results of those surveys are available to the public.

7.   Member States shall ensure that, in order to distinguish between used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be inspected by the competent authorities of Member States for compliance with the minimum requirements set out in paragraphs 8 and 9 for the shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use and monitored accordingly.

8.   Member States shall ensure that shipments arranged on a professional basis of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the minimum record-keeping requirements set out in paragraph 9 and are accompanied by at least the following information:

Member States shall ensure that the shipments referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph are appropriately protected against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, in particular, through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load, thereby maintaining the integrity and quality of the textiles for re-use throughout the transport process.

9.   Member States shall ensure that shipments of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use comply with the following minimum record-keeping requirements:

10.   Member States shall ensure that, where the competent authorities or authorities involved in inspections establish that an intended shipment of used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use is suspected of being waste, the costs of appropriate analyses, inspections and storage of used textile, textile-related or footwear products assessed as fit for re-use suspected of being waste may be charged to the producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment.