Common EU register called for to minimise administrative burdens

Date: May 11th 2026

The proposal stems in part from the EU’s Waste Framework Directive, which sets the framework for producer responsibility for textiles across EU member states and states that registration requirements should be harmonised across countries to the greatest extent possible.

Despite this, Article 22b describes a specific solution based on creating a website with links to the registers of individual member states.

In Denmark, registration requirements are centralised under Dansk Producentansvar (DPA).

In practice, this means the requirements of the Waste Framework Directive would be met by including a link to DPA’s website on the new overview page listing all EU member states’ registers.

Given the considerable complexity of producer responsibility, this approach would have a fairly limited effect in reducing the administrative burden on companies.

The three organisations have therefore joined forces to propose a far more comprehensive solution with considerably greater potential to ease the producer responsibility burden for producers.

Specifically, they propose a unified EU register that would provide:

• A single point of entry for registering producer responsibility across all EU member states
• A harmonised structure
• Standardised data

At Tekstilretur, we believe this could make a significant difference to the resources producers need to administer producer responsibility across multiple countries.

One of the greatest potential gains would be if the same data structure and categories were used in all countries, so that companies would not need to develop IT systems or internal procedures to translate data into national frameworks that can vary between member states.

Tekstilretur is an active participant in Euratex’ Textile PRO Forum, where we follow developments closely.

Harmonisation is generally high on the forum’s agenda, and work is currently underway to standardise and simplify registration procedures for producer responsibility organisations across Europe.

Read the full position paper published by Euratex here.