On 4 June 2024, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs (DG GROW) is hosting a stakeholder event for the textiles ecosystem. This is a hybrid event that will take place in Brussels and can also be followed online. All stakeholders are welcome to attend.The event includes updates on some of the key regulatory initiatives of the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, the implementation of the Transition Pathway for the Textiles Ecosystem,the EU Pact for Skills, and the European Partnership on Textiles under Horizon Europe.Topics such as market surveillance, intellectual property rights and counterfeiting will also be discussed.Please see our agenda for more information. The event will begin with a networking lunch from 12:30 - 14:00. Registration period ended on Thursday 30 May 2024, 17:00 (CEST) In March 2022, the European Commission adopted the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles.This announced several regulatory initiatives, such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, the revision of the Waste Framework Directive and the revision of the Textile Labelling Regulation.The Transition Pathway for the Textiles Ecosystem, co-created with stakeholders, was published on 6 June 2023.It identifies 50 specific actions to help make the EU textiles ecosystem greener, more digital, resilient and competitive. Public and private stakeholders are invited to share their concrete actions to help implement the Transition Pathway via the online call for pledges.On 1 March 2024, the Commission published the first set of pledges from stakeholders.ContactGROW-G1ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (GROW-G1[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)