Article 22c — Producer responsibility organisations for textiles

1. Member States shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc entrust a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations laid down in Article 22a on their behalf. 2. Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations intending to fulfil the extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers in accordance with Article 8a(3), Articles 22a, 22b and 22d and this Article to obtain an authorisation from a competent authority. 3. Member States shall lay down criteria regarding the qualifications that producer responsibility organisations need to have in order to be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers. In particular, Member States shall require the producer responsibility organisations to demonstrate the necessary expertise in waste management and sustainability. 4. Member States may derogate from the obligation in paragraph 3, provided that by 16 October 2025 they have already laid down criteria ensuring that a producer responsibility organisation may be entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers only where it shows its expertise in the field of waste management and those criteria ensure that the producer responsibility organisation will manage the waste in a sustainable manner and limit the impact of waste management on the environment. 5. Without prejudice to Article 8a(4), Member States shall require producer responsibility organisations to ensure that the financial contributions paid to them by producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc: (a) are based on the weight and, where appropriate, the quantity of the products concerned and, for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, are modulated on the basis of the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 that are most relevant for the prevention of waste generated from textile, textile-related and footwear products and for their treatment in line with the waste hierarchy and the corresponding measurement methodologies for those criteria adopted pursuant to that Regulation or on the basis of other Union law establishing harmonised sustainability criteria and measurement methods for textile, textile-related and footwear products, and that ensure the improvement of environmental sustainability and circularity of those products; (b) take account of the revenues by the producer responsibility organisations from re-use, from preparing for re-use or from the value of secondary raw materials from recycled waste textiles; (c) ensure equal treatment of producers regardless of their origin or size, without placing disproportionate burdens on producers, including small and medium-sized enterprises, of small quantities of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc. 6. Where it is appropriate to address ultra-fast and fast-fashion practices and related overgeneration of waste from textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, Member States may require the producer responsibility organisations to modulate the financial contribution on the basis of producers’ practices, concerning textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, based on the product life span resulting from such practices, the length of the useful life of those products beyond the first user, and the contribution to closing the loop of those products, by turning waste textiles into raw materials for new production chains. 7. Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and ensure consistency with the ecodesign requirements adopted pursuant to Article 4 in conjunction with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the fee modulation criteria for the application of paragraph 5, point (a), and paragraph 6 of this Article. Those implementing acts, which shall not concern the precise determination of the level of the contributions, shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of this Directive. 8. Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisations establish a separate collection system for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, regardless of their nature, material composition, condition, name, brand, trademark or origin, in the territory of a Member State where they make those products available on the market for the first time. The separate collection system shall: (a) offer the actors referred to in paragraph 9, point (a), the collection of such used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, and provide for the practical arrangements necessary for the collection and transport of such used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, including the provision, free of charge, of suitable collection and transport containers, to the collection points which are part of the producer responsibility organisation’s collection system; (b) ensure the collection, free of charge, of such used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products collected through the collection points which are part of the producer responsibility organisation’s collection system, with a frequency that is adapted to the area covered and the volume of such used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products usually collected through those collection points; (c) ensure the collection, free of charge, of waste generated by social economy entities and other actors from such textile, textile-related and footwear products collected through the collection points, which are part of the producer responsibility organisation’s collection system, in a coordinated manner between the producer responsibility organisation and social economy entities and such other actors. Any coordination among producer responsibility organisations shall remain subject to Union competition law. 9. Member States shall ensure that the collection system referred to in paragraph 8: (a) consists of collection points set up by the producer responsibility organisations and waste management operators on their behalf in cooperation with one or more of the following actors: social economy entities, retailers, public authorities or third parties carrying out on behalf of those authorities the collection of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, and operators of voluntary collection points; (b) covers the whole territory of the Member State, taking into account population size and density, expected volume of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, accessibility and vicinity to end-users, without being limited to areas where the collection and subsequent management of those products is profitable; (c) maintains a sustained and technically feasible increase in the separate collection and corresponding decrease in mixed municipal waste collection of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, based on available good practices. 10. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations are not allowed to refuse the participation of local public authorities, social economy entities or other re-use operators in the separate collection system established pursuant to paragraph 8. 11. Without prejudice to paragraph 8, points (a) and (b), and paragraph 9, point (a), Member States shall ensure that social economy entities are allowed to maintain and operate their own separate collection points and that they are given equal or preferential treatment in the location of the separate collection points. Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that are part of the collection system in accordance with paragraph 9, point (a), are not required to hand over collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc to the producer responsibility organisation. 12. Member States shall ensure that social economy entities that operate their own separate collection points in accordance with paragraph 11 submit at least once a year to the competent authority information on the quantity by weight of the separately collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, specifying: (a) the quantity by weight assessed as fit for re-use, indicating, where possible, the quantity by weight exported; (b) the quantity by weight destined to preparing for re-use, and recycling, where available specifying separately fibre-to-fibre recycling, indicating, where possible, the quantity by weight exported; and (c) the quantity by weight destined to other recovery or disposal. 13. By way of derogation from paragraph 12, Member States may exempt, partially or totally, social economy entities from the obligation to submit the information in paragraph 12, where the fulfilment of such reporting obligations would result in a disproportionate administrative burden on those entities. 14. Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(2), producer responsibility organisations make available to end users the following information regarding sustainable consumption, including second-hand options, re-use and end-of-life management of textile and footwear with respect to the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that the producers make available on the market for the first time: (a) the role of end users in contributing to waste prevention, including any best practices, in particular by fostering sustainable consumption patterns and promoting good care of products while in use; (b) re-use and repair arrangements available for textile and footwear; (c) the location of collection points; (d) the role of end users in correctly contributing to the separate collection of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, including through donation; (e) the impact on the environment, human health as well as social and human rights of textile production, in particular fast-fashion practices and consumption, recycling and other recovery and disposal and inappropriate discarding of waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, such as littering or discarding in mixed municipal waste as well as the steps taken to mitigate the impact on the environment and on human health. 15. Member States shall ensure that the producer responsibility organisation provides the information referred to in paragraph 14 on a regular basis, and that the information is up to date and provided by means of: (a) a website or other means of electronic communication; (b) communication in public spaces and at the collection point; (c) education programmes, awareness raising campaigns, and community engagement activities; (d) signposting in a language or languages which can be easily understood by users and consumers. 16. Where, in a Member State, multiple producer responsibility organisations are entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers, Member States shall ensure that those producer responsibility organisations cover the whole territory of the Member State, with the aim of providing uniform service quality of the separate collection system across the territory for used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc. Member States shall designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that producer responsibility organisations fulfil their obligations in a coordinated manner and in accordance with Union competition law. Member States in which only one producer responsibility organisation is entrusted to fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers may designate the competent authority or appoint an independent third party to oversee that the producer responsibility organisation fulfils its obligations in accordance with the Union competition law. 17. Member States shall require that producer responsibility organisations ensure the confidentiality of the data in their possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their authorised representatives. 18. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations publish on their websites, in addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(3), point (e): (a) at least once a year, subject to commercial and industrial confidentiality, the information on: (i) the amount, including the quantity by weight, of products made available on the market for the first time; (ii) the quantity by weight of separate collection of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc, specifying separately such unsold products; (iii) the rates of re-use, preparing for re-use, and recycling, specifying separately the rate of fibre-to-fibre recycling, achieved by the producer responsibility organisation; (iv) the rates of other recovery and disposal; and (v) the rates of exports of used textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc assessed as fit for re-use, and exports of waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc; (b) information on the selection procedure for waste management operators selected in accordance with paragraph 19. 19. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide for a transparent and non-discriminatory selection procedure for waste management operators, based on transparent award criteria, without placing any disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises, to procure: (a) waste management services from waste management operators referred to in paragraph 9, point (a), and (b) subsequent waste treatment. 20. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations provide, on an annual basis, the competent authorities with the information referred to in paragraph 18, points (a) and (b), including the relevant information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), required, on an annual basis, from the producers of the textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc that have been made available on the market for the first time. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility organisations specify the quantity by weight in respect of the information referred to in paragraph 18, point (a), points (iii), (iv) and (v). By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall require that, in respect of producers that are enterprises that employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and annual balance sheet does not exceed EUR 2 million, producer responsibility organisations request those enterprises to submit, on an annual basis, only the information listed in paragraph 18, point (a), point (i). The Commission shall amend Commission Implementing Decisions (EU) 2019/1004 ( 19 ) and (EU) 2021/19 ( 20 ) to include, in accordance with Article 37(7) of this Directive, the information referred to in the first subparagraph. The amended implementing acts shall address: (a) information on reporting schedules; (b) specifications concerning the structure and format of data reporting with a view to ensuring uniformity, consistency and ease of data consolidation for producer responsibility organisations. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2).

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