The European Parliament Advocates The Enforcement Of Textile Origin Labels.

The European Parliament passed the latest EU in May 18, 2010.

Earlier, the European Commission submitted a technical proposal for the textiles name and labelling to parliament to abolish and amend directive 73/44/EEC, 96/73/EC and 96/74/EC and vote by Parliament.

The revised plan aims at simplifying the EU's regulation of the development and use of new textile fibers, and the European Parliament takes the opportunity to introduce a more politicized bill.

The original intention of the EC is to submit the technical proposal to the parliament for voting. The purpose of the scheme is to make the new fibers more pparent and open in the process of coordinating the list of fiber names, and to increase the elasticity of the revised legislation so as to keep pace with the technological development of the textile industry.

However, the European Parliament has added more proposals in the resolution, including the mandatory provision for the origin label of textiles, on the ground that it is responsive to the concerns of EU consumers on product quality, environmental standards and the working environment of production.

At present, textiles and labels of origin are purely voluntary and depend on the laws of the member states themselves.

Members of the European Parliament believe that the EU should be consistent with some countries that strictly regulate the origin label, such as the United States, Canada and Japan.

The revision of the parliament lists the implementation methods of the origin label requirements, such as how to determine the origin and how to add labels to the products.

The parliament specified in detail the textiles origin labeling requirements imported from third countries, and cited the regulations on the non preferential origin of the customs code of the European Union.

The Code stipulates:

The product wholly obtained from a single country or region has its origin in the single country or region.

The production process of a product involves more than one country or region. It should be the country of origin where the product has undergone substantial pformation.

In addition, textiles imported from the EU area should be accompanied by labels of origin, not removed or altered until the product is sold to the final consumer or user.

The parliament considered that the proposed regulation should apply to most textiles, and therefore rejected the motion of the European Commission for the exemption of compulsory labelling for felt, felt hat and textile fiber toys.

However, the parliament has also adopted many suggestions from the European Commission's plan, so the plan still helps shorten the time of application of new fiber names from the application to the annex to the regulations and the passage time.

According to the amended bill, the technical inspection time for new fiber names can be shortened or shortened if the application files submitted by the manufacturers are complete and comply with the procedures specified in the regulations.

Parliament also asked the European Commission.

• l coordinated nursing labeling system; l applicable to the uniform clothing and shoe size labeling system in the European Union; l labeling of textile production or processing procedures for possible sensitization substances; l l labels showing the social status of textile production; (L) warning labels for textiles' Flammability; l electronic tags, including radio frequency identification (RFID) tags; l l to add identification numbers to the labels, and obtain more information about products through the Internet;

Finally, the Council asked the European Commission to carry out studies in the future to assess whether substances used in textile production or processing would endanger human health, including whether artificial fibers, coloring agents and nanoparticles in textiles could lead to allergic reactions. Based on the results of the study, it is necessary to assess the need to prohibit or restrict the use of certain substances in textiles.

The revised bill will be submitted to the Council of Ministers of the European Union for first reading.