EU ON TRACK TO CLEAR TOYOBO’S POLYACRYLATE AS NEW APPROVED TEXTILE NAME
October 1st, 2017
THE EUROPEAN Commission is gearing up to adopt ‘polyacrylate’ from Japan’s Toyobo as an official new textile name and label within the European Union (EU), to be listed in annexes to a 2011 regulation. The EU executive has sent the EU Council of Ministers and European Parliament a draft Commission ‘delegated regulation’ for their scrutiny, acting under the EU’s 2011 regulation on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products (1007/2011). Both have the right to veto but not amend the delegated ...
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