Suomen Tekstiili ja Muoti ry
STJM
Yhdistyksen tavoite on palvella sen jäseniä työmarkkinasopimusten aikaansaamisessa sekä muissa kauppapoliittisissa eduvalvonnallisissa asioissa.
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Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Sebastian Tynkkynen (Member of the European Parliament)
7 Nov 2025 · Ajankohtaiset asiat
Response to Circular Economy Act
6 Nov 2025
Suomen Tekstiili & Muoti ry (STJM) tukee Euroopan komission tavoitetta valmistella kiertotaloussäädöstä (Circular Economy Act) vuoteen 2026 mennessä. Suomalainen tekstiili- ja muotiala on pitkään peräänkuuluttanut selkeää ja johdonmukaista lainsäädäntökehystä, joka kokoaa yhteen keskeiset kiertotaloussäädökset, varmistaa niiden yhteensopivuuden ja mahdollistaa ennakoitavan toimeenpanon. STJM painottaa, että kiertotaloussäädöksen tulee vahvistaa EU:n sisämarkkinoiden toimivuutta ja yritysten kilpailukykyä, selkeyttää sääntelykokonaisuutta ja keventää yritysten hallinnollista taakkaa. Lain valmistelussa tulee varmistaa, että uudet vaatimukset eivät ole päällekkäistä muun sääntelyn, kuten jätepuitedirektiivin tai ekosuunnitteluasetuksen kanssa. Kiertotalouden edistäminen on tärkeä osa suomalaisen tekstiiliteollisuuden kestävyys- ja kiertotaloussiirtymää, mutta sen tulee tapahtua taloudellisesti kestävällä tavalla, joka tukee yritysten kilpailukykyä, investointeja ja innovaatioita.
Read full responseResponse to Derogations to the prohibition of the destruction of unsold Apparel and Footwear
11 Aug 2025
Finnish Textile & Fashion (STJM) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the draft delegated act establishing derogations from the prohibition of destruction of unsold consumer products.
Read full responseResponse to Towards a Circular, Regenerative and Competitive Bioeconomy
23 Jun 2025
The Finnish Textile & Fashion association, representing the Finnish textile and fashion industry, welcomes the European Commissions initiative to renew the EU Bioeconomy Strategy and appreciates the opportunity to contribute to its development.
Read full responseResponse to Digital Product Passport (DPP) service providers
10 Dec 2024
Finnish Textile & Fashion (STJM) thanks for the opportunity to comment on the call for evidence focused on the Digital product passport (DPP)- rules for service providers. STJM is an interest organisation for the Finnish textile and fashion industry, whose member companies produce clothing, accessories, interior textiles, technical textiles and non-woven fabrics, among other things. The Finnish textile and fashion industry welcomes the introduction of the DPP for textile products, but is also concerned about the increasing cost and resource impacts on economic operators, particularly SMEs. The industry, therefore, calls for the rules for service providers to take into account the needs of economic operators, and to ensure that the investment and administrative burden does not become unsustainable so that the DPP can be implemented and deployed in an accessible and sustainable way. The implementation and services of the DPP must not constitute an obstacle to the continuity of business of textile and fashion companies.
Read full responseResponse to Rationalisation of reporting requirements
27 Nov 2023
Finnish Textile & Fashion industry welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the rationalisation of reporting requirements. Our proposals are outlined in the attached paper.
Read full responseResponse to Waste Framework review to reduce waste and the environmental impact of waste management
22 Nov 2023
Finnish Textile and Fashion is the central organisation for textile, clothing and fashion companies in Finland. We promote the Finnish textile and fashion industry and our member companies globally. We have over 250 member companies in the textiles and apparel industry. We represent the member companies interests as industry influencer we take part in relevant decision-making and discussions concerning the business environment and provide the member companies with platforms for cooperation and advocacy. Finnish Textile & Fashion welcomes the proposal to develop separate collection, sorting, re-use and recycling of textile products, as well as harmonisation of EPR scheme for textiles in the EU. However, the industry has concerns regarding the proposals ensuring of market surveillance and a fair operating environment, as well as the competitiveness of the European textile and fashion industry as the economic impacts on businesses and administrative burden increase.
Read full responseResponse to Revision of EU rules on textile labelling
28 Sept 2023
Finnish Textile and Fashion Association takes a positive view on the revision of textiles labelling rules in the EU as initiated by European Commission. This revision should take a holistic view on labelling of textiles but also make the current regulation up to date, companied with a guiding document. Textile and clothing companies often sell products in multiple markets, which makes complying to current non-harmonized rules burdensome. We need rules on what is mandatory and what is not for the whole EU and harmonized ways to label textile products. This would benefit both consumers and companies. This revision should: 1. Bring the Textile Labelling Regulation up to date and provide a guiding document 3. Harmonize all labelling rules in the EU and ban country-specific labelling rules 4. Utilize digital labelling 5. come up with language independent ways for labelling
Read full responseMeeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)
21 Sept 2022 · Global Gateway activities in Africa and other developing markets.
Response to EU strategy for sustainable textiles
1 Feb 2021
Finnish Textile & Fashion warmly welcomes an EU strategy for sustainable textiles. We believe that a successful EU Textile strategy will provide an opportunity for competitive and sustainable EU textile sector in the future. A sector specific approach gives an opportunity to remove structural barriers of textile recycling and bring harmonized solutions across Europe.
We welcome the ambition of the Commission to reconcile the environmental-social-economic sides of sustainability in textile sector. A shift is needed on how most of the textile products are designed, chosen, consumed, and disposed of. However, it is necessary to identify the clear scope, common understanding and targets for a textile strategy from the very beginning. It should be clear whether the strategy will address single topics or a comprehensive guideline for the whole industry, and does it also include other textiles than garments and home textiles.
The planned strategy should focus on minimizing rapid consumption of nonrenewable materials, low quality or short life cycle textiles. This aspect is especially important as a large part of the global impact of EU consumption is generated outside the EU. Sustainable competitiveness should be brought to the focus of interest, and the playing field between products made in EU and imported goods should be level. We would also wish to suggest not to use the word “waste” in the Textile strategy, in the case of a valuable secondary raw material, like discarded textiles or other side-steams.
Circular economy and sustainability are not market drivers in the global textile and fashion industry. Policy measures should support the creation of a reverse logistic system in which collecting, sorting, and the use of discarded textiles is implemented in an efficient manner. We support the proposal for setting concrete targets to step up reuse and recycling efforts as well as green public procurement in the EU. Bringing circularity across the value chain can solve many issues and answer the increasing demand for secondary-raw materials.
It is important that textile strategy shall encourage towards circularity and support investments in new infrastructure and technology. This means, for example, digital design tools, material platforms, automated sorting and new manufacturing and recycling technologies, but also new material alternatives based on renewable biomaterials, side-streams, or discarded material flows. This entails a great opportunity for the European textile industry but also requires funding to scale up innovations from laboratories and pilot projects to the larger scale solutions. The textile strategy should also go beyond recycling: it should encourage European textile sector to be more circular and move towards new business models.
We want to highlight our concern on many parallel and intertwined proposals on sustainability and the circular economy. It is very important that the requirements imposed on companies are in line with each other and that their effects are also assessed. Currently it is challenging to assess the impact various initiatives and legislative proposals have on business. The upcoming textile strategy should not address issues that are already being promoted through other initiatives, such as updating the ecodesign criteria, substantiating green claims, digital product passport, due diligence etc.
It is also very important to remember, that the European textile sector is almost always linked to complex, international value chains. Through the circularity it is possible to increase the resource autonomy of the EU textile and apparel industry. However, it should properly reflect in the new textile strategy that more that 95 % of the European textile and apparel companies are small and medium size enterprises (SME). It is crucial to the sustainable development and competitiveness of the European textile sector to give appropriate support for SME’s, otherwise only the non-EU business will profit.
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