Three directives will be repealed and replaced on 8 May 2012 by one regulation.
Regulation 1007/2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products will repeal and replace the following directives.
•Directive 2008/121/EC on textile names.
•Directive 96/73/EC on certain methods for the quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures.
•Directive 73/44/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the quantitative analysis of ternary fibre mixtures.
The information required by the new regulation, available here, concerns the composition of the textile products, which must be provided using harmonised fibre names. The regulation also stipulates methods to check on whether the composition of textile products is in conformity with the information supplied.
