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Waste Framework Directive Amendment In force Unlisted

Overview

Jurisdiction
European Union
Topic
-
Instrument type
Directive
Reference number
2025/1892
Valid from
2025-10-16
Valid to
2027-06-17
Modified date
2025-09-26
Listed at
Unlisted draft
Withdrawn at
-
Description
Amends the Waste Framework Directive, introducing in particular binding food-waste prevention measures and extended producer responsibility for certain textile, textile-related and footwear products.

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Rule sets

Label Effective
Producers of covered textile and footwear products 2025-10-16 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
EU
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2025-10-16)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “textile products” “textile-related products” “footwear products”
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “manufacturing” “importing” “distributing” “reselling under own name or trademark” “distance selling to end-users”
Producer responsibility organisations 2025-10-16 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
EU
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2025-10-16)
Expires at milestone:
-

No conditions.

Social economy entities with own collection points 2025-10-16 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
EU
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2025-10-16)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “operating separate textile collection points”
Fulfilment service providers for textile offerings 2025-10-16 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
EU
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2025-10-16)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “fulfilment services for textile producers”
Professional shippers of reusable textiles 2025-10-16 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
EU
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2025-10-16)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “professional shipment of used textiles assessed as fit for re-use”
Economic operators with a significant food-waste role 2025-10-16 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
EU
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2025-10-16)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “primary food production” “food processing or manufacturing” “food retail or distribution” “restaurant or food service”
Micro-enterprises in the textile sector 2029-04-17 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
EU
Applies from milestone:
Application Start (2029-04-17)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:

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Obligations

Title Kind Rule set
Extended producer responsibility and cost coverage Other -
Description:
Producers must assume extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related and footwear products they make available on the market for the first time and cover the required costs of collection, sorting, re-use, preparing for re-use, recycling, other recovery, disposal, compositional surveys, information, reporting, and research and development.
Frequency:
Continuous
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities of the Member States
Check method:
Verification of first placing on the market and financing of the required waste-management costs
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22a(1), Article 22a(8)
Source excerpt:
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
Appointment of an authorised representative Governance -
Description:
Producers established in another Member State must appoint, by written mandate, an authorised representative established in the relevant Member State when they first make covered products available there.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
One-time
Products/Services:
Textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities of the Member States
Check method:
Verification of producer status, sales channels and establishment
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22a(3)
Source excerpt:
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
Registration in the producer register Record Keeping -
Description:
Producers must register in each Member State where they first make covered products available and submit the required company, tax, product and producer-responsibility-organisation information together with a declaration of accuracy.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
One-time
Products/Services:
Textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities of the Member States
Check method:
Verification of registration in the national producer register before first placing on the market
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22b(2), Article 22b(4)
Source excerpt:
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.
Updating the producer register Reporting -
Description:
Producers, their authorised representatives or producer responsibility organisations must notify the competent authority without undue delay of changes to registration information and permanent cessation of first placing on the market.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities of the Member States
Check method:
Verification of updated register information and cessation of activity
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22b(8)
Source excerpt:
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
Appointment of a producer responsibility organisation Governance -
Description:
Producers must entrust a producer responsibility organisation with fulfilling their extended producer responsibility obligations.
Frequency:
Continuous
Check frequency:
Continuous
Products/Services:
Textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities of the Member States
Check method:
Verification of appointment and authorisation of the producer responsibility organisation
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22c(1)
Source excerpt:
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.
Separate textile collection system Other -
Description:
Producer responsibility organisations must establish a free separate-collection system covering the whole territory, provide suitable collection and transport containers, and enable subsequent sorting, re-use, preparing for re-use and recycling.
Frequency:
Continuous
Check frequency:
Continuous
Products/Services:
Covered used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities of the Member States
Check method:
Verification of separate collection, territorial coverage and subsequent treatment
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22c(8), Article 22c(9)
Source excerpt:
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
Annual quantity reporting by social economy entities Reporting -
Description:
Social economy entities operating their own separate collection points must report at least annually to the competent authority the weight-based quantities collected and their destinations.
Frequency:
Annual
Check frequency:
Annual
Products/Services:
Separate collection points operated by social economy entities
Checking responsibility:
Competent authority
Check method:
Verification of the annual weight-based quantity report and treatment destinations
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22c(12)
Source excerpt:
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
Annual transparency and authority reporting Reporting -
Description:
Producer responsibility organisations must publish and submit annually information on quantities placed on the market, separate collection, re-use, recycling, recovery, disposal and export rates.
Frequency:
Annual
Check frequency:
Annual
Products/Services:
Covered textile and footwear products first made available by producers
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities of the Member States
Check method:
Verification of published annual data and information submitted to competent authorities
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22c(18), Article 22c(20)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations publish on their websites ... at least once a year ... the information on
Evidence and documents for textile shipments Record Keeping -
Description:
Companies arranging professional shipments of such products must provide the required invoice, contract, sorting or assessment evidence and declaration that the consignment contains no waste, and protect the shipment against transport damage.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Shipped used textile, textile-related and footwear products assessed as fit for re-use
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities of the Member States
Check method:
Inspection of accompanying documents, sorting evidence, declarations and packaging
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22d(8)
Source excerpt:
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
Providing register information to fulfilment service providers Record Keeping -
Description:
Producers must provide fulfilment service providers at contract conclusion with registration information and a self-certification that the extended producer responsibility requirements are complied with.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc offered to end users in the Union
Checking responsibility:
Fulfilment service providers; oversight by competent authorities
Check method:
Verification of register information and self-certification provided before contract conclusion
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 22a(15)
Source excerpt:
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
Proposal of food donation agreements Stakeholder Engagement -
Description:
Economic operators identified by a Member State must propose donation agreements to food banks and other food redistribution organisations for donating unsold food that is safe for human consumption at a reasonable cost.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Food handled by economic operators identified by a Member State as having a significant role in food-waste prevention and generation
Checking responsibility:
Competent authorities designated by the Member States
Check method:
Verification that donation agreements have been proposed to food banks or other food redistribution organisations
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 9a(1)
Source excerpt:
to ensure that economic operators identified by Member States as having a significant role in the prevention and generation of food waste, propose donation agreements to food banks and to other food redistribution organisations

Measures

No measures.

Penalties

No penalties.

Milestones

Date Type Description
2025-09-10 Adopted Directive adopted
Source reference:
Final paragraph before Article 1
Source excerpt:
Done at Strasbourg, 10 September 2025.
2025-10-16 Entry into Force Directive enters into force
Source reference:
Article 3
Source excerpt:
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2026-01-01 Application Start First compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste
Source reference:
Article 22d(6)
Source excerpt:
By 1 January 2026 and every five years thereafter, Member States shall carry out a compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste
2027-01-17 Other Deadline to notify competent authorities for food-waste prevention
Source reference:
Article 29a(2)
Source excerpt:
inform accordingly the Commission by 17 January 2026.
2027-04-17 Other Deadline for the harmonised textile-producer-register format and start of the five-year delegation
Source reference:
Article 22b(10)
Source excerpt:
By 17 April 2027, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register of producers
2027-06-17 Transposition Deadline Transposition deadline
Source reference:
Article 2(1)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 17 June 2027 at the latest.
2027-10-17 Other Deadline for communicating food-waste prevention programmes
Source reference:
Article 29a(1)
Source excerpt:
shall be communicated to the Commission by 17 October 2027.
2028-04-17 Application Start Latest date for establishing textile extended producer responsibility schemes
Source reference:
Article 22a(14)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by 17 April 2028
2029-04-17 Application Start Textile provisions begin applying to micro-enterprises
Source reference:
Article 1(12), Article 41
Source excerpt:
From 17 April 2029, Articles 22a, 22b, 22c and 22d shall apply to enterprises which employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million.

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Cites Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/1597
Cites Regulation (EU) 2021/1057
Cites Regulation (EU) 2016/679
Cites Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87
Cites Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
Cites Regulation (EU) 2022/2065
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Cites Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87
Cites Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
Cites Regulation (EU) 2019/1150
Cites Regulation (EU) 2024/1157
Cites Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1004
Cites Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/19
Cites Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
Cites Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Cites Council Directive 1999/31/EC
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