The purpose of extended producer responsibility for textile, textile-related and footwear products is to ensure a high level of environmental and health protection in the Union, create an economy for collection, sorting, re-use, preparing for re-use, and recycling, in particular, fibre-to-fibre recycling, as well as provide incentives for producers to ensure that their products are designed in a manner that respects circularity principles. In order to ensure that the extended producer responsibility obligations do not apply retroactively and comply with the principle of legal certainty, producers of textile, textile-related or footwear products should finance the costs of collecting, sorting for re-use, preparing for re-use and recycling, and of the recycling and other treatment of collected used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products, including unsold consumer products considered to be waste that were supplied on the territory of the Member States from the date of entry into force of this amending Directive. Those producers should also finance the costs of: carrying out compositional surveys of collected mixed municipal waste; providing information to end users on the impact and sustainable management of textiles; reporting on separate collection, re-use and other treatment; sorting and recycling technologies; and of supporting research and development for the eco-design of textiles that do not contain substances of concern.
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