European Union parliament adopts chemical regulation REACh - effects on the textile and mode industry

(openPR) - the general association textil+mode sees substantial loads coming by REACh on the textile and clothing enterprises. The regulation will have catastrophic effects for the textile industry as industry downstream.

„Straight lines within the range of the low tonnages we had hoped for fewer registration requirements “, so Peter Schwartze, Präsident of the general association textil+mode. „The present registration package will only ensure that small-volumed materials for purely economic reasons of the market disappear, i.e. also harmless materials. The consequences will be expensive conversions of production and know-how loss. “Also the goal of REACh - protection of the health and environment - is not achieved by such incomprehensible regulations.

The equal treatment of domestic and imported chemical products is not given in the current version of the article 7. For European Union products higher costs result than for imported goods - the competition-distorting effect is obvious. The article 7 resembles a paper tiger, which knows execution of the criteria mentioned by the customs authorities is not realized. In particular with clothing textiles with production cycles of few weeks the article 7 will not seize. The European Union has still no way to be found, like the problem of the imported goods be solved can - the article 7 is directly incomplete. „It may not be, so Schwartze that striking errors relating to crafts on the backs of the small and medium-size enterprises are delivered. “

The Verabschiedung of the chemical regulation REACh in this year is very probable. After the plenum of the European parliament agreed on 13 December 2006 of the regulation, also the advice could agree on 18 December 2006 of the regulation. After the present conditions must be assumed the regulation steps to 01 June 2007 into force, i.e. independently of when exactly the regulation is adopted and published in the European Official Journal. „We will further try in any case to positively affect the topic REACh over the European organization EURATEX in our sense. “, so the president of the general association Peter Schwartze.

General association of the German textile and mode industry
Frankfurt STR. 10 - 14
65760 Eschborn

Stefanie angel
Paper communication and public work
sengel@textil-mode.de

The general association of the German textile and mode industry registered association represents this industry in economics, social and tariff-political questions. Altogether approx. 400,000 employees, busy of it more than 120,000 in Germany, are in the textile and mode industry. The general association is member Federal Employers Association and the BDI. On European level the membership in the European roof federation of the textile and the clothing industry, Euratex insists.

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