EU Council Adopts Regulation on Textile Labeling
On July 19, 2011, the European Council adopted a regulation on the European Union's system regarding the standard description of fibers and the labeling of textile products to provide accurate information to consumers and improve the functioning of the EU…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
If your job depends on informed compliance, you need International Trade Today. Delivered every business day and available any time online, only International Trade Today helps you stay current on the increasingly complex international trade regulatory environment.
internal market. Some of the main provisions of the regulation include: (i) simplifying and improving the existing regulatory framework for the development and uptake of novel fibers to encourage innovation in the textile and clothing sector; (ii) enhancing transparency of the process to add fibers to the list of harmonized fiber names; (iii) indicating the presence of non-textile parts of animal origin on the labeling; (iv) laying down methods for the sampling and analysis of textile products that can be turned into European standards; (v) etc. (See future issue of ITT for more detailed summary.)