Apparel

What is mandatory

Fibre composition

Mandatory The fibres the product is made of and the share of the total weight each accounts for.

Fibre — Mandatory

Fibre share — Mandatory

Animal-origin statement

Mandatory in some cases The wording indicating the presence of non-textile parts of animal origin, as it appears on the product’s labelling or marking.

Mandatory when Contains non-textile parts of animal origin is yes.

What the passport holds

Identity

What the product is and how it is identified — the fields any passport needs before it can say anything else.

• Product name — Optional The name the product is placed on the market under, as it appears to the person buying it.
• Product image — Optional A photograph of the product as it is placed on the market.
• GTIN — Optional The Global Trade Item Number the product is identified by, as printed in its barcode.
• Placed on market — Optional The date the product was first made available on the EU market.

Economic operator

Who is responsible for the product on the EU market, and how they can be reached about it.

• Economic operator — Optional The registered name of the economic operator responsible for placing the product on the EU market.
• Operator contact page — Optional A web address at which the economic operator can be contacted about this product.

Substances of concern

Whether the product contains substances of concern, and where the declaration saying so can be read.

• SVHC present — Optional Whether the product contains a substance of very high concern above 0.1% by weight under REACH.
• Declaration of conformity — Optional A link to the declaration of conformity the manufacturer has issued for the product.

Carbon footprint

How the product’s carbon footprint was calculated, so that a number can be compared with another one.

• Footprint methodology — Optional The methodology the product’s environmental footprint figures were calculated under.

Fields specific to this product group

• Fibre composition — Mandatory The fibres the product is made of and the share of the total weight each accounts for.
  • Fibre — Mandatory A single fibre the product is made of.
  • Fibre share — Mandatory The share of the product’s total fibre weight this fibre accounts for.
• Contains non-textile parts of animal origin — Optional Whether the product contains parts of animal origin that are not themselves textile — leather trim, horn buttons, feather filling.
• Animal-origin statement — Mandatory in some cases The wording indicating the presence of non-textile parts of animal origin, as it appears on the product’s labelling or marking. Mandatory when Contains non-textile parts of animal origin is yes.
• Care instructions — Optional How the product should be washed, dried and stored to reach its expected lifespan.
• Wash cycle rating — Optional The number of standard wash cycles the product is tested to withstand without material degradation.
• Expected lifespan — Optional How long the product is expected to remain fit for its purpose under normal use.

Fields of this passport

Every field this passport can carry, a page each: what it holds, whether it is mandatory here, and the official vocabulary it anchors to.