The rules land in 2027. Your data has to be ready before then.

Circular Economy Action Plan adopted

Foundation document that flagged Digital Product Passports as a future requirement across multiple product categories.

›Nothing to do. This is where the paper trail starts.

AGEC anti-waste law in force

France's Coût Environnemental framework becomes the operational baseline for textile environmental labelling.

›Selling into France already means playing by French labelling rules.

ESPR framework regulation enters into force

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation passes, empowering the Commission to publish category-specific delegated acts. Textiles are named in the first wave.

›The legal basis for textile DPPs now exists. The detail comes later, by delegated act.

DMCCA: Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act

UK greenwashing enforcement framework. Tightens scrutiny of environmental claims and creates penalties for unsubstantiated marketing language.

›Any green claim you make in the UK needs evidence behind it now, not in 2027.

ESPR working plan 2025 to 2030 published

The Commission sets its running order for delegated acts and names textiles a priority category, with an indicative 2027 date for the textile measure.

›This is the source of the 2027 figure. It is an adoption target, not a compliance deadline.

Green Claims Directive withdrawn

The Commission announced its intention to withdraw the Green Claims proposal and paused the legislative process, after feedback that it placed disproportionate requirements on micro-enterprises.

›Green claims are still regulated, just through the Empowering Consumers Directive instead.

⚠Changed. Withdrawn. Earlier guidance treating this as incoming law is out of date.

Empowering Consumers Directive transposition deadline

Member States must have written the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive into national law.

›The national rules that will police your claims are being finalised now.

JRC publishes the first textile DPP data specification

The Joint Research Centre sets out the first complete view of what a textile passport must carry: 49 data points across four categories.

›The clearest signal yet of what you will need to collect. Worth mapping against your current data today.

Public consultation closes

The last major window for brands and industry to influence the textile data points before the Commission moves to drafting.

›The data model is now largely set. Preparation, not lobbying, is the remaining lever.

France adopts the anti-fast-fashion law

Parliament passed the bill on 29 June 2026 and it became law on 8 July. It targets high-volume, low-price textile sales, defined by range breadth and lack of repair incentive.

›If you sell high volumes into France at low price points, you are now in scope of a named regime.

Anti-fast-fashion penalties take effect

Financial penalties on ultra-fast-fashion products begin, from 25 cents to 12 euros per item, alongside display obligations on online interfaces covering repair, re-use and manufacturing location.

›The first per-product financial penalty in this space. Manufacturing location has to be displayable, which is supply chain data you either hold or do not.

Empowering Consumers rules apply

Bans sustainability labels that are not backed by an approved certification scheme, along with a list of unsubstantiated environmental claims.

›Unverified badges and vague claims come off your product pages.

Coût environnemental becomes mandatory

France's environmental cost label becomes mandatory for brands that publicly communicate any other environmental score.

›If you publish any environmental score in France, you must publish this one too. The nearest hard deadline on this page.

EU Deforestation Regulation applies

EUDR obligations begin for large and medium companies, covering seven commodities and their derived products. Cellulosic fibres such as viscose and lyocell bring textiles into scope.

›Wood-derived fibres need geolocated, deforestation-free sourcing evidence. That is supplier-level traceability, not a certificate.

Italy debates a national eco-score

Senate bill DDL S.1690 proposes SNET, a national eco-score ranking products A to E with commercial and fiscal consequences for poor performers, plus advertising restrictions on ultra-fast fashion.

›A second national scoring scheme after France. Watch it: two divergent national schemes is a very different data problem from one EU standard.

EUDR applies to micro and small enterprises

The smaller-company deadline for the same deforestation obligations, six months after the main date.

›Smaller brands get longer, but the sourcing evidence required is the same.

Textile delegated act expected

Defines what a textile DPP must contain, the data structures, the verification standards and the publication mechanism. The Commission's indicative year for adoption.

›The rules become fixed. Whatever data you have not gathered by now, you are gathering under a deadline.

⚠Changed. Moved. Earlier guidance put this in mid-2026.

First products must carry a compliant passport

Obligations follow adoption rather than landing with it. Current expectations point at the first collections after the act takes effect.

›The date your products are actually checked. Working back from it is the whole planning exercise.