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The European Commission's first Ecodesign for Sustainable Products and Energy Labelling Working Plan covers 2025-2030 and identifies textiles/apparel as a priority product group, with an indicative 2027 timeline for adoption of a delegated act. Curtain buyers should treat this as a direction for better product data鈥攏ot as proof that a specific curtain requirement is already in force.
The official EU document says future ecodesign requirements may address product performance and product information, with information mainly made available through a Digital Product Passport. It lists textiles/apparel as a priority and notes that product-specific requirements will be developed through delegated acts.
The European Commission adopted COM(2025) 187 final on April 16, 2025. The plan prioritizes product groups for work through 2030. For textiles/apparel, it identifies potential improvements in product lifetime, material efficiency, water, waste, climate, and energy impacts, and gives 2027 as an indicative timeline for adoption.
The document explains that future ecodesign requirements can cover performance information such as durability or recycled content and product information such as key features or environmental footprint. The exact requirements, scope, timing, and verification route will depend on later product-specific work.
Even before a product-specific rule applies, importers benefit from a cleaner information chain. A private-label curtain program often spreads product data across the quotation, swatch card, sample label, packaging artwork, barcode file, inspection record, and marketplace listing. Conflicts between those records create both commercial and compliance risk.
The sensible preparation is not to print a 鈥淒igital Product Passport ready鈥?claim. It is to organize reliable data that could later support product information, traceability, or customer documentation.
Good product data is already useful for quotations, sample approvals, QC, claims, and repeat orders. Buyers do not need to wait for a future rule to stop managing these records in separate, conflicting files. They also should not present a future policy direction as a current curtain-specific legal requirement.
Source checked June 19, 2026. Buyers should obtain market-specific legal advice before treating the working plan or a future delegated act as applicable to a particular curtain product.