The Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986 (“the principal Regulations”), as amended by the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 1988, which implement Council Directives No. 71/307/EEC (OJ No.

L185, 16.8.71, p. 16) and No. 83/623/EEC (OJ No. L353, 15.12.83, p. 8) and Commission Directive No. 87/140/EEC (OJ No. L56, 26.2.87, p. 24) relating to textile names and which require that when textile products are supplied or offered for supply commercially or are described in certain advertisements an indication of their fibre content shall be given.

The principal Regulations are amended in two respects to correct minor errors in the implementation of the Community legislation. First, they are amended to require that where textile products are supplied or offered for supply, other than in specified circumstances, with accompanying commercial documents, an indication of fibre content must appear in those commercial documents (regulation 5(3)). Before amendment, the principal Regulations provided that such indication might be given by one or more of three methods which included setting it out in accompanying commercial documents. Second, the principal Regulations are amended to remove the option to describe certain textile products as “pure cotton warp pure linen weft” (Schedule 1, paragraph 5(5)).

A Compliance Cost Assessment is available, copies of which have been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies are also available from the Consumer Affairs Division of the Department of Trade and Industry, Room 320, 10-18 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0NN.