EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles

This procedure concerns the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. It is an own-initiative report, in which Parliament sets out its own position on a subject; it is not itself a law and is not binding. It was handled by several committees, including Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Internal Market and Consumer Protection and Development, in the field of the textile and clothing industry. The tabled amendments describe the Textile, Garment, Leather and Footwear sector, poor working conditions and the predominance of women workers, invoke SDG 5 on gender equality and policy coherence for development under Article 208 TFEU, and reference a Digital Product Passport. They address exports of used textiles to third countries, trade preferences such as GSP+ and Everything But Arms, and forced or child labour.