Article 22b — Register of producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products

1. Member States shall establish a register of producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc (‘register of producers’) to monitor compliance of those producers with Article 22a and Article 22c(1). The Commission shall establish a website with links to all national registers of producers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. Member States shall inform the Commission about the link to their national registers of producers within 30 days of the launch of the registers. The information on each register of producers shall be easily accessible, publicly available and free of charge, machine readable, sortable and searchable, and respect open standards for third party use. The provision of information under this paragraph shall be without prejudice to preserving the commercial and industrial confidentiality of sensitive information in conformity with relevant Union and national law. 2. Member States shall ensure that producers are required to register in the register of producers. To that end, Member States shall require the producers to submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make available textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc on the market for the first time. 3. Member States shall only allow producers to make available on the market for the first time textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc where they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility, are registered in the Member State in question. 4. The application for registration shall include the following information: (a) name, trademark and brand names, where available, under which the producer operates in the Member State concerned and address of the producer including postal code and place, street and number and country, telephone, if any, web address and email address, and a single contact point; (b) national identification code of the producer, including its trade register number or equivalent official registration number and Union or national tax identification number; (c) the CN 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; (d) the name, postal code, place, street and number, country, telephone, if any, web address, email 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; (e) a statement by the producer or, where applicable, the authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation, stating that the information provided is true. 5. Member States shall ensure that the obligations under this Article can, on the producer’s behalf, be met by a producer responsibility organisation by written mandate. 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. 6. Member States shall ensure that the competent authority: (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 made available on the competent authority’s website; (b) grants registrations and provides a registration number within a maximum period of 12 weeks from the date that the information laid down in paragraph 4 is provided; (c) is able to lay down detailed arrangements with respect to the requirements and process of registration without adding substantive requirements further to those laid down in paragraph 4; (d) is able to charge cost-based and proportionate fees to producers for the processing of applications referred to in paragraph 2. 7. The competent authority may refuse or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information laid down in paragraph 4 and related documentary evidence is not provided or is insufficient or where the producer no longer meets the requirements set out in paragraph 4, point (d). 8. Member States shall require the producer, or, where applicable, the authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or 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 of the textile, textile-related or footwear products referred to in the registration. A producer shall be excluded from the register of producers if it has ceased to exist. 9. Where the information in the register of producers is not publicly accessible, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers and fulfilment service providers concluding contracts for any of the services referred to in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 with producers offering textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc to end users are granted access, free of charge, to the register of producers. 10. By 17 April 2027, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the harmonised format for registration in the register of producers 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).

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-09