The clothing industry and the rules it now works under.
Statutes, directives and codes that name clothing directly — France, the EU, the UK, the US — in date order, with what each one requires and when it bites.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 entered into force on 18 July 2024.
Photo: King's, in Mumbai - a jacket's label · Wikimedia CommonsRegulation (EU) 2024/1781, in force from 18 July 2024, provides for the digital product passport as the primary disclosure instrument for textiles. This piece covers what the passport must carry, where textiles sit in the Commission's working plan, and the technical challenge of encoding it at care-label scale.
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From 1 January 2025 the revised Waste Framework Directive required every EU member state to provide separate collection for textiles.
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A structured walkthrough of the EU textile regulatory sequence: the Ecodesign Regulation (July 2024), mandatory separate collection (January 2025), the extended producer responsibility scheme (timeline from 2025 revision), and the Green Claims Directive advertising ban (September 2026).
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Directive (EU) 2024/825 bans generic environmental claims — 'sustainable', 'eco-friendly', 'green', 'conscious' — without substantiation from 27 September 2026.
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The UK Competition and Markets Authority opened its fashion green-claims investigation in July 2022 and secured undertakings — not fines — from ASOS, Boohoo and Asda in March 2024.
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New York's Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act would require fashion companies above $100 million in annual revenue to map and disclose their supply chains and set emissions reduction targets.
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