Directive (EU) 2025/1892 amends the Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC and requires every Member State to set up extended producer responsibility for textiles and footwear. The Commission reported that the revision entered into force on 16 October 2025. Member States have 20 months to transpose it, which puts the deadline at 17 June 2027, and 30 months to have the schemes running, which puts that deadline at 17 April 2028. The directive is in force. The national schemes are not all required yet.
Under the schemes, producers pay a fee for each product they place on the market. The fee finances collection and what happens next, including reuse, preparing for reuse, recycling and disposal. Fees are adjusted against sustainability criteria, including criteria developed under the ESPR, such as durability and recyclability. That adjustment is called eco-modulation. A product that is harder to deal with at end of life can cost the producer more. The Commission also says the fees can support consumer information and research into design and waste prevention.
Separately collected textiles are to be treated as waste, so Member States share one reading of what is waste and what is a used product. They must be sorted before they are shipped. The aim is to stop waste being described as reusable clothing and then exported. Unsorted textile waste falls under the Waste Shipment Regulation. A bale of clothing does not leave waste law because someone called it second-hand.
The directive does not replace schemes that already exist, such as the Dutch UPV Textiel rules or the French Refashion scheme. It sets common Union rules those schemes will have to meet. Brands and retailers who place products on a national market should expect to register, report quantities and pay a modulated fee, even when they do not own a factory. The producer definition and the product list are in the directive and, after transposition, in national law. The official text is CELEX 32025L1892. Check that text for the latest wording.