Reference documents

Textiles Directives

• Directive 2008/121/EC of 14 january 2009 on textile names (Official Journal L 19, 23.01.2009 p.39)
• Directive 2007/4/EC of 2 February 2007 amending for purposes of its adaptation to technical process, Annexe II to Directive 96/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain methods for quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures [47 KB] (Official Journal L28 of 3.2.2007 p.14-18)
• Directive 2006/2/EC of 6 January 2006 amending for purposes of its adaptation to technical process, Annexe II to Directive 96/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain methods for quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures [42 KB] (Official journal L5, 10/01/2006 p.10-12)
• Directive 96/73/EC of 16 December 1996 on certain methods for the quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures (Official Journal L 032, 03/02/1997 p.1-37)
• Directive 73/44/EEC of 26 February 1973 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the quantitative analysis of ternary fibre mixtures (Official Journal L 83, 30/03/1973 p.1-18)

Communications on textiles

• Communication of 13 October 2004 "Textiles and clothing after 2005 - recommendations of the High Level Group for textiles and clothing" (COM(2004) 668 final)
• Communication of 29 October 2003 "The future of the textiles and clothing sector in the enlarged Europe" (COM(2003) 649 final)
• Communication of 15 May 1996, "The competitiveness of subcontracting in the textile and clothing industry in the European Union" [3 MB] [3 MB] (COM/96/0210 final)
• Communication of 06 October 1995 "The Impact of International Developments on the Community's Textile and Clothing Sector" [52 KB] [52 KB]

Textile and clothing High Level Group

The High Level Group aims to make concrete proposals and measures to improve the conditions for the competitiveness of the European textiles and clothing industry.