Household textile and apparel and clothing accessories comprise the largest share of Union textile consumption and the biggest contributor to unsustainable patterns of over production and overconsumption. Household textiles and apparel are also the focus of all existing separate collection systems in Member States along with other post-consumer apparel, accessories and footwear that are not primarily composed of textiles. The scope of the established extended producer responsibility scheme should therefore cover textile, textile-related and footwear products for household use or other uses, where such products listed in Annex IVc are similar in nature and composition to those for household use. Other uses where textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc are similar in nature and composition to those for household use should include professional uses unless the obligations of establishing dedicated separate collection schemes and subsequent waste treatment operations for such products for professional uses are already provided for in this amending Directive, under provisions other than those included in Articles relating to extended producer responsibility for textiles and management of waste textiles, or in other relevant Union and national laws. Products for professional use, including military use, that can pose safety, health and hygiene risks or raise security concerns should be excluded from extended producer responsibility schemes established for textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc. In order to ensure the legal certainty for the producers on the products subject to the extended producer responsibility, the products in scope should be identified by reference to the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes pursuant to Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.
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