Industrial and commercial practices, such as ultra-fast and fast fashion, influence the length of use of the product and the likelihood of a product becoming waste because of aspects not necessarily linked to its design, and are often based on market segmentation. Such practices could lead to the premature discarding of the product before it reaches the end of its potential lifetime, resulting in the overconsumption of textile products and, consequently, to the overgeneration of waste textile. To better identify those practices and allow for eco-modulation of extended producer responsibility fees, Member States could consider criteria such as the width of the product range, understood as the number of product references offered for sale by a producer, with defined thresholds per market segment, or the frequency of offers, understood as the number of product references per market segment offered for sale by a producer in a given period, or repair incentives, understood as the likelihood of the product to be repaired on the basis of its repair-cost ratio or the provision of a repair service by the producer.
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