GERMANY TEXTILES CONFORMITY CERTIFICATE PROPOSED
April 12th, 2014
The German federal ministry for economic cooperation and development (BMZ), is to introduce a new sustainability certificate for companies in the textiles and clothing chain listing their compliance with set standards in the areas of social and environmental policy. A BMZ (Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung) spokesperson told just-style that there would be a “round table” with the industry and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) by the end of this month to discuss the certificate. The hope is that the certificate could ...
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