Participant
As a producer or importer, you are responsible for the collection, recycling and reuse of the textiles you put on the Dutch market. From 2025, the government imposes objectives for collection, recycling and reuse. This is an individual legal obligation that we as a sector organize effectively together. To this end, producer organization Stichting UPV Textiel is developing a collective approach with the help of companies, which have signed up as participants. We are building a realistic and cost-efficient system and testing it with EPR-registered companies. The market will thus help determine what works for the sector, is effective and affordable.
Producer organization
Stichting UPV Textiel is a formally recognized producer organization. Meanwhile, more than 850 producers and importers have joined Stichting UPV Textiel. The list of participants shows an overview of our participants.
Statement and fee
As a participant, you make an annual declaration of the weight of textiles you place on the Dutch market and pay an annual textile management fee. With this, you contribute to the implementation of the textile management structure needed to achieve the objectives, the promotion of necessary innovation/transition to circular and cooperation for sustainability in the supply chain & processing chain.
Textool
As a participant you have access to Textool, the secure application for your textile administration at Stichting UPV Textiel. In Textool, you can submit statements, manage your data and view invoices. You can log in via the Textool button at the top of the page.
Statement 2024
Before 1 April, you will submit a preliminary statement of the weight of textiles you expect to place on the market in the Netherlands in 2024. You will also pay a provisional 2024 fee In 2025, you declare the realized 2024 sales. The difference in fee will then be settled. You only pay for textiles actually placed on the Dutch market.
Textile Management Fee
You pay the producer organization a fee for increased and improved separate collection and achievement of reuse/recycling targets, promotion of necessary innovation/transition to circular, cooperation for sustainability in the supply chain & processing chain. The board of Stichting UPV Textiel, consisting mainly of producer executives, annually sets the budget and the provisional and final rate of the textile management fee. The amount of the fee is largely determined by costs required for implementation of collection and processing and market coverage of the producer organization.
No fee 2023: preparation costs
In 2022 and 2023, the foundation faces preparation costs for starting up the organization, developing processes and systems and making the collective notification to the Ministry of IenW. You will not pay a direct fee for this. The foundation works on a pre-financing basis. The preparation costs of € 0.01 per kilogram of the weight of textiles you put on the market in 2023 are included in the fee 2024.
Fee 2024: start-up costs
In 2024, you will pay a provisional fee 2024 for the start-up costs to make the systems operational. This provisional 2024 fee is set by the board at € 0.10 per kilogram of the weight of textiles you place on the market in 2024. This fee will be repaid to you from 2025 onwards in no more than five years. By doing so, we ensure that players who join later contribute to the start-up costs.
Fee 2025: implementation costs
The 2025 fee is largely determined by costs required for implementation of collection and processing and market coverage of the producer organization. To achieve the objectives from 2025 onwards, scaling up and improving collection and processing of textiles is needed. For this, agreements must be made in 2024 and the total costs of these measures must be accurately identified. Based on the expected market coverage of the foundation, experience with other EPR systems and cost research, the board is already giving an indication of the 2025 fee of € 0.20 per kilogram.
This is the budget 2025 distribution
The textile management fee 2025 is largely determined by costs necessary for carrying out the collection and processing and the market coverage of the producer organization.
The level of fee 2025 will be determined by:
Implementation costs
- Budgeted costs to achieve the objectives from 2025 onwards. These take into account scaling up and improving the collection and processing of collected textiles. To this end, we will make agreements with our chain partners this year. It is the first year of implementation and intensive consultation is needed. Issues to be discussed include, for instance, the compensation system for recognized service providers to stimulate high-quality fibre-to-fibre recycling and reuse in the Netherlands. Details will be worked out by the Innovation Expert Group.
- Costs for implementation of a recognition scheme for recognized service providers, audits and monitoring.
- Behavioral research, educating consumers with a campaign and improving awareness of collection points. We will develop his together with producers and chain partners in the Expert Group Communication.
- Monitoring and reporting (there is already a mandatory report for 2024).
Transition fund innovation
with this we can stimulate innovation for high-quality recycling. For this we call on chain partners to submit proposals that contribute to more high-quality textile recycling.
Organizational costs
Costs for the purpose of organization, development of systems and administration.
Contribution to resilience
This includes the reservation for the guarantee scheme. This covers the costs of collection insofar as the proceeds of the collected textiles fall below the regular average collection costs of a municipality.
Based on the foundation's expected market coverage, experience with other EPR systems and cost research, the board has set an indicative fee of € 0.20 per kilogram for 2025 in November 2023. Based on current insights, this is still appropriate.
The board has appointed a Financial Committee with 3 board members: Udo Delfgou (INretail), Eric Serrarens (Angro) and Jeroen Markink (Wibra). The committee discussed the first draft of the multi-year forecast in April 2024. This provides the contours for the consultation with the chain partners. The result is expected to be available this summer, after which the draft budget for 2025 with a forecast to 2030 can be discussed and adopted by the board.
