What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Added:'Subject to Article 10(2) and (3), Member States shall set up separate collection at least for paper, metal, plastic and glass, and, by 1 January 2025, for textiles, and shall be encouraged to set up separate collection for wood.'; [Am. 50]

Added:(5a) In Article 11, the following subparagraph is inserted after the third subparagraph:

Added:‘Member States shall undertake necessary measures to ensure sufficient infrastructure is in place for separate collection of waste and is made easily accessible, for all kinds of waste, and where appropriate, shall increase the number of points of separated waste collection. Where municipal waste collection systems are necessary for improvement, Member States shall do so without undue delay.’; [Am. 51]

Added:(6) in Article 11b, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

Added:‘1. The Commission shall, in cooperation with the European Environment Agency, draw up reports on the progress towards the attainment of the targets laid down in Article 9a(4), Article 11(2), points (c), (d), and (e), and Article 11 (3) at the latest three years before each deadline laid down therein.’;

Added:(7) the following Articles 22a to 22d are inserted:

Added:‘Article 22a Extended producer responsibility scheme for textiles

Added:1. Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for household textile products, articles of apparel, clothing accessories and footwear, apparel and clothing accessories listed in Annex IVc (“textile, textile-related and footwear products”) that they make available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a. [Am. 52]

Added:1a. By 31 December 2024, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 38a to supplement this Directive as regards laying down further rules on the establishment of extended producer responsibility for personal protection equipment as referred to in Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council*. [Am. 53]

Added:1b. By 31 December 2027, Member States shall ensure that producers of carpets and mattresses as referred to in Part 2a (new) of Annex IVc, whose main composition is textile, that make available those carpets and mattresses on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State, shall have extended producer responsibility in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a. Member States may decide to establish a separate extended producer responsibility scheme specifically for those items. [Am. 54]

Added:2. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to expand the scope of Annex IVc and to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature codes listed in Annex IVc to this Directive in line with the codes listed in Annex 1 to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87**. [Am. 55]

Added:3. Member States shall define in a clear, inclusive and balanced way, in accordance with Article 8a (1), point (a), way the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1. Member States shall ensure that all relevant actors are fully involved in the decision-making process of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include:

Added:(a) producers placing products on the market of the Member State;

Added:(b) organisations implementing extended producer responsibility obligations on their behalf;

Added:(c) private or public waste operators;

Added:(d) local authorities;

Added:(e) re-use and preparing for re-use operators;

Added:(f) social enterprises, including local social enterprises. [Am. 56]

Added:4. Member States shall ensure that the producers of textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs of the following:

Added:(a) collection of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc and subsequent waste management that entails the following:

Added:(1) the collection of those used textile products for re-use and the separate collection of waste textile products for preparationpreparing for re-use and recycling in accordance with Articles 22c and 22d,; [Am. 57]

Added:(2) transport of collected loads referred to in point (1) for subsequent sorting for re-use, for preparationpreparing for re-use and for recycling operations in accordance with Article 22d,; [Am. 58]

Added:(3) sorting, preparationpreparing for re-use, recycling and other recovery operations and disposal of collected loads referred to in point (1),; [Am. 59]

Added:(4) collection, transport and treatment referred to in points (1) and (2) of waste generated by social enterprises and other non-waste operators that are part of the collection system referred to in Article 22c, paragraphs 5 and 11; [Am. 60]

Added:(b) carrying out compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste in accordance with Article 22d(6);

Added:(c) providing information, including via appropriate information campaigns and communication work, on sustainable consumption, waste prevention, re-use, preparing for re-use, recycling, other recovery and disposal of textiles and footwear products in accordance with Article 22c(13), (14) and (17); [Am. 61]

Added:(d) data gathering and reporting to the competent authorities in accordance with Article 37;

Added:(e) support to research and development to improve the sorting and recycling processes in line with the waste hierarchy referred to in Article 4, in particular, in view of scaling up fibre-to-fibre recycling, without prejudice to Union state aid rules.; [Am. 62]

Added:(ea) reuse and repair operations, including research and development for their improvement. [Am. 63]

Added:5. Member States shall ensure that producers of textiles, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article in relation to the used and waste textiles, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc deposited at the collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c, points 5 and 11, where such products were made available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State after [P.O. insert date of entry into force of this amending Directive], including any used and waste textiles that may be collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(5). [Am. 64]

Added:6. The costs to be covered referred to in paragraph 4 shall not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide the services referred to in that paragraph in a cost-efficient way consistent with the waste hierarchy and shall be established in a transparent way between the actors concerned. [Am. 65]

Added:6a. Providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc shall be registered in the register of the producers referred to in Article 22b in the Member State where the consumer is located, before placing products from those producers onto their platforms. [Am. 66]

Added:7. For the purpose of compliance with Article 30, paragraph 1, points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms, falling within the scope of Chapter 3, Section 4 of that regulation, allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers offering textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to consumers located in the Union obtain the following information from producers;

Added:(a) information on the registration in the register of the producers referred to in Article 22b in the Member State where the consumer is located and the registration number(s) of the producer in that register;

Added:(b) a self-certification by the producer committing itself to only offering textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc with regard to which the extended producer responsibility requirements referred to in paragraphs 1 and 4 of this Article and Article 22c(1) are complied with in the Member State where the consumer is located.

Added:8. Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by [P.O insert date thirty eighteen months after the entry into force of this amending Directive] in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, 22a to 22d. [Am. 67]

Added:Article 22b Textile, textile-related and footwear producer register

Added:1. Member States shall establish a register of producers of textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to monitor compliance of those producers with Article 22a and 22c(1).

Added:Member States shall ensure that the register provides links to other national registers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. The register shall be easily accessible and free of charge to the public online. [Am. 68]

Added:2. Member States shall ensure that producers are required to register in the register referred to in paragraph 1. To that end, Member States shall require the producers to submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc available on the market for the first time.

Added:2a. Member States shall inform the other Member States about the link to the national register within 30 days of the launch of that register. [Am. 69]

Added:3. Member States shall only allow producers to make available on the market for the first time within their territory textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc where they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for the extended producer responsibility, are registered in that Member State.

Added:4. The application for registration shall include the following information:

Added:(a) name, trademark and brand names, where available, under which the producer operates in the Member State and address of the producer including postal code and place, street and number, country, telephone, if any, web address and e-mail address, and name of a single contact point;

Added:(b) national identification code of the producer, including its trade register number or equivalent official registration number and Union or national tax identification number;

Added:(c) the Combined Nomenclature codes of the textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc that the producer intends to make available on the market for the first time within the territory of that Member State;

Added:(d) the name, postal code, place, street and number, country, telephone, web address, e-mail address and national identification code of the producer responsibility organisation, trade register number or an equivalent official registration number, the Union or national tax identification number of the producer responsibility organisation, and the represented producer’s mandate;

Added:(e) a statement by the producer or the producer responsibility organisation, stating that the information provided is true.

Added:5. Member States shall ensure that the obligations under this Article may, on the producer’s behalf, be met by a producer responsibility organisation.

Added:Where a producer has designated a producer responsibility organisation, the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State.

Added:6. Member States shall ensure that the competent authority:

Added:(a) receives applications for the registration of producers referred to in paragraph 2 via an electronic data-processing system the details of which shall be prominently made available on the competent authorities’ website; [Am. 70]

Added:(b) grants registrations and provides a registration number within a maximum period of 12 weeks from the moment that the information laid down in paragraph 4 is provided;

Added:(c) may lay down detailed arrangements with respect to the requirements and process of registration without adding substantive requirements to the ones laid down in paragraph 4;

Added:(d) may charge cost-based and proportionate fees to producers for the processing of applications referred to in paragraph 2.

Added:7. The competent authority may refuse or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information outlined in paragraph 4 and related documentary evidence is not provided or is not sufficient or where the producer no longer meets the requirements set out in paragraph 4, point (d).

Added:8. Member States shall require the producer, or, where applicable, the producer responsibility organisation to notify the competent authority without undue delay of any changes to the information contained in the registration in accordance with paragraph 4, point (d), and of any permanent cessation as regards the making available on the market for the first time within the territory of the Member State of the textile and footwear products referred to in the registration. A producer shall be excluded from the register of producers if it has ceased to exist.

Added:9. Where The information in the register of producers is not shall be publicly accessible, machine readable, sortable and searchable, respecting open standards for third party use. Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers are granted access, free of charge, to the register. [Am. 71]

Added:9a. No later than 31 December 2026, the Commission shall assess the feasibility of establishing a Union-wide register for producers of textile, textile-related, and footwear products listed in Annex IVc. That assessment shall encompass the potential benefits, challenges and administrative capacity required for the implementation of such Union-wide register. [Am. 72]

Added:10. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register based on the information requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).