The ESPR enables the setting of performance and information rules – known as ‘ecodesign requirements’ – for almost all categories of physical goods, including:-
•    Improving product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability
•    Enhancing the possibility of product maintenance and refurbishment
•    Making products more energy and resource-efficient
•    Addressing the presence of substances that inhibit circularity
•    Increasing recycled content
•    Making products easier to remanufacture and recycle
•    Setting rules on carbon and environmental footprints
•    Limiting the generation of waste
•    Improving the availability of information on product sustainability

The ESPR also contains a number of other measures, notably
•    The introduction of a Digital Product Passport
•    Rules on Green Public Procurement
•    Rules preventing the destruction of unsold products (including textiles)

For more detailed information, please visit the ESPR webpage here  Preparatory work is ongoing regarding the ESPR Delegated Act on textiles – see here

The European Commission is also preparing the ESPR Delegated Act on unsold goods, setting out derogations from the prohibition of destruction of unsold textile and textile-related products, due adoption by 19 July 2025.