EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS ORIGIN OF CLOTHES, SHOES MANDATORY ON LABELS
January 1st, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Parliament called yesterday (Thurs) for the European Commission to stick to its guns in proposing that origin labelling for clothing and shoes made outside the European Union (EU) be made mandatory, after the EU executive threatened to withdraw a legislative proposal on the issue.The Commission is struggling to find majority support for the idea on the EU Council of Ministers. If the proposal is in the end withdrawn, clothes and shoes manufacturers would not be obliged to disclose the origin of their producers when selling on the European market.And ...
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