In the context of the consideration of the European Parliament’s draft report on the EU Strategy for sustainable and circular textiles, the FTAO and 6 other civil society organisations put together a list of 12 actions that are needed for the Textile Strategy to deliver on its promise to make sustainable – both environmentally as well as socially – textile products the norm.

We call on MEPs to take action on:

1. Developing ambitious and holistic ecodesign requirements
2. Tackling global overproduction
3. Ensuring a Just Transition
4. Ensuring fairer purchasing practices
5. Enabling the transparency of supply chains
6. Implementing due diligence accountability
7. Taking action on ultra-fast fashion
8. Putting green and social washing to an end
9. Implementing EU trade policy that rewards sustainability
10. Maximising local re-use of textiles
11. Phasing out hazardous chemicals in textiles
12. Ensuring sustainable textile production in Europe

Read the full joint paper for more information.