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Labelling Update nr. 3, 2022

Intro

On the 15th of July we hosted our first physical meeting on extended producer responsibility (EPR). On September 16th Modint will again organize a physical meeting (no online access) on the practical implementation of all kinds of EPR labelling requirements. Click here for more information and registration.

We keep receiving a lot of questions on how to comply with EPR labelling requirements such as TRIMAN logo and sorting info in France and new upcoming EPR packaging legislation in various EU member states. Click here to read the updated version of the CITEO guide and the Re-Fashion guide. 

Other news

  • France: Publication of decree 13, I: Prohibiting the use of specific environmental claims
  • EU - Upcoming : a digital passport for textile product
  • The ISO Working Group update the technical revision.
  • GINETEX update: New labelling rules in Vietnam
  • Thailand: Determination of Types of Products to be Label-Controlled Products, Announcement, May 2022
  • USA: clothing company fined for forgery labels
  • FAQ : How to mention Regenerative Cotton on a label? 


France: Publication of decree 13, I: Prohibiting the use of specific environmental claims
From 1 May 2022, it is prohibited to include the words, “biodegradable”, “environmentally friendly” or any other *equivalent environmental claim on a new product or packaging intended for consumers (Article R541-223 of the Environmental Code). * Work to update the practical guide to environmental claims is still in progress. The new guidance will provide more information on what is covered by the current term, “equivalent environmental claims”.

This prohibition stems from article 13 of law n°2020-105, February 10, 2020, on the circular economy and the fight against waste, known as the “AGEC law”. It entered into force the day after the publication of the implementation of decree no. 2022-748 of April 29, 2022, for consumer information on the environmental qualities and characteristics of waste-generating products.

Timeframe to use up stocks
Products or Packaging manufactured or imported before April 30, 2022 have a stock run-down period until January 1, 2023. Read more>>

EU  - Upcoming : a digital  passport for textile product
The European Commission plans to launch a Digital Product Passport (DPP), in line with its ambition to follow a circular economy. In its strategy for sustainable and circular textiles, the Commission has expressed its wish to introduce a digital passport for textile products. The objective of this tool is to collect product data from the entire supply chain and then share it with all the value chains so that the players (manufacturers, suppliers, distributors) – including consumers – may access information on the materials that were used to make the product and on its environmental impact. 

What will be listed in the passport? 
In the textile industry, the digital product passport will enable the accessibility of mandatory. The passport information could include substances of concern, information on how to repair the product or the product’s fiber composition, for instance. 

Towards new labelling obligations? For the sake of consistency, the Commission plans to review Regulation 1007/2011 on the labelling of textiles. Under this regulation, the only mandatory feature of the product is its fiber composition. The Commission is therefore likely to include other types of information, such as durability and circularity parameters, the size, or even the place of manufacture (“made in”).

The ISO Working Group update the technical revision
As a reminder, the ISO TC38/SC2 Working Group 12 is finalizing the technical revision of the ISO 3758 standard “Textiles – Care Labelling Code using Symbols”. From December 20, 2021 to March 14, 2022, the standard had entered the DIS period. Now, in the next phase of the revision, two meetings took place between May and June to discuss comments raised by the international experts, and to treat some exemptions. The first meeting took place on May 10, the second one on June 14, 2022. Once finalized, this fourth edition of the standard will cancel and replace the third edition (ISO 3758:2012).
On behalf of the Netherlands NEN, Antonio Barberi Ettaro participated in this revision.

GINETEX update: New labelling rules in Vietnam
New product labelling requirements have come into force in Vietnam under Decree No. 111/2021/ND-CP, which amends Decree No. 43/2017/ND-CP. This text sets new requirements for all goods put into circulation in Vietnam. The labels of textile products placed on the Vietnamese market must include the following information in Vietnamese:

  • Name of the goods
  • Contact details of the manufacturer/ importer /marketer
  • Origin of the goods by affixing the “made in” label

Under entry 25 of annex I of the decree, the following additional information is required on the labels of textile products placed on the Vietnamese market:

  • Fibre composition
  • Care instructions
  • Year of production
  • Technical features
  • Warnings

The decree, which came into force on February 15, 2022, specifies that this information must be in Vietnamese. Importers in the textile industry must therefore make sure that they comply with these labelling rules when they market their products on the Vietnamese territory.

Thailand: Determination of Types of Products to be Label-Controlled Products, Announcement, May 2022
On 23 May 2022, the Thai Chairman of the Board on Labelling issued an Announcement on the Category of Labelling Controlled Products, in accordance with the Notice on Characteristics of the Label on Label-Controlled Goods (B.E. 2541, 1998). In order to protect consumers by allowing them to obtain accurate and complete information about the product, some goods are assigned as label-controlled goods in Thailand.

This Announcement provides the aforementioned list, and includes, but is not limited to, the following categories:

  • Household products 
  • Personal products
  • Paper products and stationary
  • Electrical appliances and components (electric kettle, coffee machine, blender, food mixer, image screen, computer equipment, radio receivers, audio equipment, microphones, speakers, lamps (not including medical lamps), freezers (excluding medical freezers) electric stove, microwave ovens, electric iron, LED lamps) 
  • Vehicles and equipment
  • Agricultural equipment
  • Construction materials
  • Other (e.g. sewing machines, mobile phones, watches, batteries used for watches, calculators or cameras).

This Announcement will come into force on 21 August 2022, 90 days after its publication.

USA: clothing company fined for forgery labels
The American clothing company Lions Not Sheep, has been fined for using clothing labels with factually incorrect information writes FashionUnited.

FAQ : How to mention Regenerative Cotton on a label? 
Cotton itself is not regenerative, it is the agriculture which is. Therefor you can not make a product specific claim about the cotton being regenerative on the sew in label. In case it is certified (for example Regenagri), you can make the claim that the cotton is from generative farming. MODINT will try to add the translation of regenerative agriculture to our new edition of the translation document, which will be available after summer.


 

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