Commission Directive 2006/3/EC of  9 January 2006  amending, for the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Annexes I and II to Directive 96/74/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile names   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-01-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: consumer information, labelling, product designation, product quality, textile fibre, textile product

L 5/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

10.1.2006

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2006/3/EC

of 9 January 2006

amending, for the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Annexes I and II to Directive
96/74/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile names

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

2.

in Annex II the following entry 45 is added:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

‘45

Elastomultiester

1,50’

regard to Directive 96/74/EC of

Having
Parliament and of
textile names (1), and in particular Article 16(1) thereof,

the European
the Council of 16 December 1996 on

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Directive 96/74/EC lays down rules governing the
labelling or marking of products as regards their textile
fibre content, in order to ensure that consumer interests
are thereby protected. Textile products may be placed on
the market within the Community only if they comply
with the provisions of that Directive.

In view of recent findings by a technical working group,
it is necessary, for the purposes of adapting Directive
96/74/EC to technical progress, to add the fibre elasto-
multiester to the list of fibres set out in the Annexes I
and II to that Directive.

Directive 96/74/EC should
accordingly.

therefore be

amended

The measures provided for
accordance with the opinion of
Directives relating to Textile Names and Labelling,

in this Directive are in
the Committee for

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Directive 96/74/EC is amended as follows:

1.

in Annex I the following row 45 is added:

‘45

elastomultiester

fibre formed by interaction of two or
more chemically distinct linear macro-
molecules
in two or more distinct
phases (of which none exceeds 85 %
by mass) which contains ester groups
(at
as dominant
least
85 %)
suitable
treatment when stretched to one and
length and
its original
half
released, recovers rapidly and substan-
tially to its initial length’

functional unit
after

and which,

times

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 9 January 2007 at
latest. They shall
forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those
provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and
this Directive.

the

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in
the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 9 January 2006.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

(1) OJ L 32, 3.2.1997, p. 38. Directive as last amended by Commission

Directive 2004/34/EC (OJ L 89, 26.3.2004, p. 35).