Directive (EU) 2025/1892 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 September 2025, amending Directive 2008/98/EC of 19 November 2008 (Waste Framework Directive), was published today in the Official Journal of the European Union.
The new Directive amends the Waste Framework Directive, aligning it with the targets set by the European Commission in its Communications of 11 December 2019 (‘European Green Deal’) and 30 March 2022 (“EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles”), which call for greater acceleration by the Union and Member States in terms of environmental sustainability, particularly in the textile sector and, in the case of the European Green Deal, also in the food sector.
The Directive now published introduces, among others, the following new measures:
- Establishes an extended producer responsibility regime for textiles and footwear, which must be introduced by Member States until 17 April 2028 (Article 22a);
- Creates a mandatory register of textile producers in order to monitor their compliance with the extended producer responsibility regime (Article 22-B).
- Requires organisations responsible for the producer responsibility to establish a separate collection system for textile waste (Article 22-C); and
- With regard to food waste, it sets targets for Member States to achieve until 2030 in terms of reducing food waste (Article 9-A).
Member States shall adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 17 June 2027.
For further information on Directive 2025/1892, it may be consulted here.
