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Textile Exchange

Textile Exchange is a driving force for beneficial climate and nature impacts across the global textile industry.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Anna Cavazzini (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Nov 2024 · textile sustainability

Meeting with Danuše Nerudová (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment

23 Oct 2024 · discussion on Green Claims Directive

Meeting with Michal Wiezik (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Jan 2024 · Green Claims

Meeting with Laura Ballarín Cereza (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

23 Oct 2023 · Green Claims

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Siemens AG

16 Oct 2023 · Directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)

Response to Revision of EU rules on textile labelling

29 Sept 2023

We welcome the opportunity to submit our feedback to the revision of the Textile Labelling Regulation. Please find our feedback provided in the attached document.
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Response to Environmental claims based on environmental footprint methods

19 Jul 2023

Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving positive action on climate change across the fashion, textile and apparel industry. We guide and support a growing community of brands, retailers, manufacturers, and farmers towards more purposeful production right from the start of the supply chain. We support the objectives of the Green Claims Directive and welcome the opportunity to provide feedback. This is provided below and in the attached document. To give the fashion and textile industry a way to authenticate their sustainability claims from raw material to final product, Textile Exchange has developed a set of robust standards . Our system has been verified independently against ISEALs Codes of Good Practice to make sure we have a robust, transparent process in place. ISEAL supports ambitious sustainability systems and their partners to tackle the worlds most pressing challenges. We base our label and certification system on the principle of chain of custody. The aim of chain of custody, is to preserve the identity of the claimed material, and to track its movement through the supply chain up to the final product. Verified chain of custody is used to ensure that the attribute claim may be linked to the product and that only those products are labeled. Certification is needed at every stage of the supply chain. This involves an on-site audit, a document review, and then the awarding of a scope certificate. Each time products moving along the production chain are shipped, the certification body also issues transaction certificates to the producer and recipient. Textile Exchange warmly welcomes the European Commissions proposal for a Directive on Green Claims and appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposal. Textile Exchange fully supports the ambition to address greenwashing through introduce mire stringent legislation, enabling consumers to make informed decisions. After an initial review of the European Commissions proposal and building on our labelling scheme expertise, Textile Exchanges key reflections are the following: Textile Exchange welcomes: The establishment of criteria that define a minimum set of expectations for credible and transparent labelling schemes; The flexibility regarding the methodology to be used as opposed to a single methodology for substantiating environmental claims. At Textile Exchange, we believe in an approach to impact data we call LCA+. This approach can help the industry fill key gaps in LCA data and methodologies, while also investing in the identification of additional impact data approaches to address other important impact areas not covered by LCA methodology today, such as biodiversity and soil health. We also believe the legislative proposal could be improved on the following aspects: Secure a level playing field for all sustainability and labelling schemes, by ensuring legal certainty and coherence between the Empowering Consumers Directive and the Green Claims Directive; Provide clear definitions of what constitutes a new labeling scheme or added value as stated in article 8.5; Align the criteria set out in article 8.2 with the ISEAL Credibility Principles, as well as the ISEAL Codes of Good Practice and its definition of a transparent and effective labelling scheme; Amend the verification process to ensure a fair and consistent approach to verifying schemes. o We call for a clear and consistent interpretation at member state level through a harmonized verification process at European level, or at a minimum clear process for pre-approval outlined in the directive. o We support the introduction of guidance to ensure consistent interpretation and application of the verification requirements.
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Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

21 Dec 2022 · Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles

Meeting with Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry and

15 Jun 2021 · Green claims, consumer empowerment, Textiles Strategy and EU sustainable product policy

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry and

15 Jun 2021 · Green claims, consumer empowerment, Textiles Strategy and EU sustainable product policy