Digital Product Passport guidance for the textiles and apparel sector. Covering EU fibre composition rules, microplastic shedding disclosure, durability testing, care labeling standards, and the 2027 ESPR compliance deadline.
Textile and fashion compliance guides: DPP, REACH, OEKO-TEX, GOTS, flammability, fiber labeling, and the documentation fashion brands need for EU and US retail.
If you sell clothing or shoes in France, you're already paying into a system that funds textile collection and recycling — and you may not even know it. France has run extended producer responsibility for textiles longer than anywhere else in the world. Now the EU is building a harmonised version for all 27 member states, and the habits you build in France today are the rehearsal for what's coming.
Your hangtag says "organic cotton." Your marketing says "sustainable." Then a department store buyer asks for your GOTS certificate, and you discover that "our supplier told us the cotton is organic" is not, in fact, a certificate.
The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is the reference for organic textiles worldwide. Here's what it actually is, who gets certified, and what it costs a small brand to do it right.
Managing OEKO-TEX Standard 100 compliance across a textile supply chain is slow, error-prone, and paper-heavy. Every garment, fabric, and accessory must meet strict chemical limits, and proving that compliance to buyers requires collecting, verifying, and sharing certificates — often hundreds at a time. Without software, teams drown in spreadsheets, expired PDFs, and manual audits.
Fashion brands selling into the EU face a rapidly expanding web of compliance requirements: REACH chemical declarations, ESPR Digital Product Passports, GPSR product safety, EUDR deforestation-free sourcing, and more. Managing these across hundreds of suppliers and thousands of SKUs with spreadsheets is no longer viable.
Textile compliance software automates supplier data collection, declaration generation, and regulatory reporting — replacing manual processes with a single platform. This guide compares the leading options and shows how to choose the right fit for your fashion brand.
Textiles and apparel are the first priority sector for Digital Product Passports under the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). With mandatory compliance by 2027, textile manufacturers, brands, and importers have the shortest runway of any industry to implement DPPs.
This guide covers everything textile companies need to know — from fiber composition requirements to microplastic disclosure, care labeling, and step-by-step implementation using sector-specific templates.