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The textile sector faces a significant challenge: achieving a circular textile chain by 2050. One of the key building blocks for this is the EPR for Textiles Decree and its associated objectives. By 2025, 50% of the weight of clothing and textiles placed on the Dutch market (from the previous year) must be prepared for reuse or recycling. This percentage will gradually increase to 75% by 2030. To achieve the EPR objectives, the commitment of producers, umbrella organizations, service providers and municipalities is essential. By collaborating with various organisations across the clothing and textile chain, we can take important steps toward transitioning to a valuable, circular textile sector.

Collaboration with umbrella organizations
It is important to unite forces within the textile chain: Stichting UPV Textiel represents over 900 producers and importers that put textiles to the Dutch market, while umbrella organisations and their members play a crucial role in enabling discarded textiles to be reused or turned into raw materials. Industry association Branchevereniging Kringloop Nederland (BKN), NVRD (Dutch municipalities and public companies), Vereniging Herwinning Textiel (VHT), and Stichting UPV Textiel have engaged in intensive discussions over the past year about what is needed to achieve the [UPV] objectives. This has resulted in a framework agreement for 2025, outlining collaborative commitments focused on innovation and the sustainability of the chain. We also share a collective responsibility to engage consumers through a comprehensive communication campaign to raise awareness of their role and help them make more sustainable choices.
Agreements
Within the existing structure of discarded textile collection, sorting, and processing, we have collectively agreed on a standardized fee system, a Recognition Scheme, and methods for monitoring.Fee
The fee system consists of guarantee fee and transition fee. The guarantee fee is for the cleaning and sorting of discarded textiles, and is set and guaranteed for 2025. The transition fee is intended as an incentive for fibre-to-fibre recycling or sorting for fibre-to-fibre recycling, with a focus on pilot projects. These fees provide service providers with a stable foundation, financial support, and incentives to contribute to the EPR objectives.Independent Market Research
In 2025, we will conduct independent market research to ensure that appropriate fee can be provided beyond 2025. This research will focus on: the costs of collecting and processing discarded textiles, as well as potential bottlenecks in the textile chain – from product to sorting and recycling – that hinder a circular textile chain. The results of the pilots will be included in this research. This research will be repeated periodically to keep track of developments and remain current. At the end of 2025, we will collectively establish new agreements regarding guarantee, monitoring, and transition fee.Circular Together
In addition to collaborating with the mentioned umbrella organizations, we are also open to working with other interested parties. Our goal is to represent the entire market and collectively enable the transition to a valuable, circular textile chain.Service providers
Service providers, such as textile collectors, textile sorters, thrift stores and recyclers, play a crucial role in the national textile management structure to responsibly remove discarded textiles from the market. The goal is to reuse or process these textiles into raw materials wherever possible. To be eligible for fee for your activities, we ask you to register, complete the Recognition Scheme, and sign the Service Agreement 2025 with us. Join us in tackling this challenge to achieve our shared goal: improving the quality of separately collected textiles, so more textiles become available for reuse and high-quality recycling.Who can apply?
You can enter into a Service Agreement for Textile Management Structure 2025 with us if your company performs one or more of the following activities:
- Collects, receives, or arranges the collection of Dutch textiles* and cleans them in the Netherlands;
- Sorts Dutch textiles* and markets them for product reuse or material reuse;
- the fibre-to-fibrerecycling of Dutch Textiles*, with an application in yarns;
- Sorts Dutch textiles* for fibre-to-fibre recycling;
- And complies with the Recognition Scheme of the Foundation.
*This refers to textiles that fall within the scope of the EPR for Textiles Decree .
Comply with the Recognition Scheme
Before entering into a Service Agreement with us, you must meet the requirements of the Recognition Scheme. This ensures the assurance of quality, health and safety, and environmental standards. The Recognition Scheme helps to further professionalize your organization by improving processes and maintaining a transparent and reliable textile administration.What fees are there?
As a recognized service provider, you may be eligible for:- Guarantee fees for the cleaning of textiles (after collection or intake) and sorting.
- Transition fees as an incentive for fibre-to-fibre recycling or sorting for fibre-to-fibre recycling, based on pilot projects.


Who is eligible to a guarantee fee?
You will be eligible for a guarantee fee in 2025 at the end of each quarter if you:- Have signed the Service Agreement for Textile Management 2025 with [Stichting UPV Textiel] as a (provisional) recognized service provider;
- Clean or sort discarded textiles in the Netherlands within the product scope of the EPR Textiles Decree, and carry out these activities in the Netherlands;
- Are connected to the Retex monitoring system;
- Submit the required monitoring data.
Who is eligible to a transition fee?
There are two transition fees as an incentive to stimulate fibre-to-fibre recycling or sorting for fibre-to-fibre recycling based on pilot projects. Each pilot project requires a purchase guarantee from the product manufacturer (domestic or international) in which the fibers are processed. Your pilot may be eligible for one of these transition fees if you meet the following conditions:- It involves discarded textiles in the Netherlands, for which a guarantee fee applies for the steps of cleaning and sorting;
- The textiles are weighed and specifically sorted post-consumer textiles in the Netherlands by a recognized service provider, with a guarantee fee, aimed at maintaining the highest possible quality to preserve fibers in an application chain;
- Chain of Custody up to the production and sale of the intermediate product, at least yarn, fully documented, where necessary/possible with a circular label;
- CSR conditions at the OECD Guidelines level, checked/guaranteed;
- Cost transparency compared to the current method and impact analysis: what is the cost of the circular approach and what does it deliver (in terms of circular textiles and potentially as a stepping stone toward the objectives of the EPR Textiles Decree).
Fee Calculation Tool (currently only available in Dutch)
Would you like to calculate which guarantee fees and amounts may apply to you? Use the calculation tool below, which has been created in collaboration with the chain partners. This tool allows you to make a realistic estimate of potential fees.
Why sign a service agreement?
As a (provisional) recognized service provider:
- You will receive a guarantee fee in 2025 for the cleaning and sorting of textiles, aimed at ensuring the continuity of the textile management structure. These fees have been coordinated with the umbrella partners and will compensate a significant portion of the estimated shortfall in your activities for 2025;
- You will receive an advance fee of 10% of the annual fee immediately after (provisional) recognition and signing the Service Agreement for Textile Management Implementation 2025;
- You may be eligible for one of the two transition fees. A transition fee for fibre-to-fibre recycling, intended for scalable pilot projects where Dutch textiles are recycled fibre-to-fibre and applied in new clothing or household textiles. Or a transition fee for fibre-to-fibre sorting for scalable pilots that demonstrably contribute to sorting for fibre-to-fibre recycling. This is in addition to the sorting guarantee fee but not in combination with the fibre-to-fibre recycling transition fee.
We ask our recognized service providers to participate in a periodic independent cost price study. This will allow us to develop a fee model over the coming years that adapts as well as possible to the market situation. As a result, we will be able to partially compensate any future shortcomings in the chain and develop the right incentives to achieve the set objectives. This provides you with the assurance of a sustainable partnership, both now and in the years to come.
Provisional Recognition
De VHT, NVRD en BKN hebben in 2024 samen in de ‘Regiecommissie Financiële Uitvoeringsafspraken’ initiatief genomen voor de ontwikkeling van het model Dienstverleningsovereenkomst Uitvoering Textielbeheer 2025. Deze partijen hebben ook de Erkenningsregeling ontwikkeld in de Expertgroep Erkenningsregeling. Bent u lid van de VHT, NVRD of BKN en heeft u een VHT-certificaat, BKN-keurmerk of een gelijkwaardige combinatie van certificeringen en registraties op het gebied van kwaliteit, arbo, veiligheid, milieu en transport? Dan kan de Stichting u als dienstverlener voorlopig erkennen. Met een voorlopige erkenning ontvangt u de garantievergoeding over het eerste kwartaal 2025 al in mei 2025, ook als u nog niet definitief erkend bent. Zodra wij alle benodigde gegevens van u hebben ontvangen, beoordelen we binnen drie maanden of u definitief in aanmerking komt voor een vergoeding, vooruitlopend op of tijdens de erkenningsaudit. Wij helpen u graag verder om de recognition scheme process.I want to register my company, what should I do?
- Register your company via the registration form on the website.
- We will contact you, and you will receive an email with a checklist. In this email, we will ask you to provide the necessary information for an intake interview.
- Based on the intake interview and the information we have received from you, we will assess whether you meet the requirements of the Service Agreement for Textile Management 2025. If so, we will prepare it for you.
- After that, you will receive the Service Agreement for Textile Management 2025 for digital signing. For more information about the agreements and terms for participation, please refer to the Service Agreement Model for Textile Management Implementation 2025 .
More information for service providers (currently only available in Dutch)
Municipalities
As a municipality, you play an important role in achieving the EPR objectives. After all, you determine which service provider collects the discarded textiles in your municipality. We kindly ask you to work with the recognized service providers who are affiliated with the Foundation. These providers report to us annually on the amount of textiles collected, cleaned, sorted, and where the sorted textiles are sent. Through a dashboard, you will have annual insights into the amount of textiles collected by these providers in your municipality and how they are processed in the chain. To access the dashboard, you can request an account with us starting in April.
Does your municipality perform executive tasks? For example, do you provide containers in public spaces or organize the actual collection? These activities are part of the guarantee fee for cleaning. If your service provider receives this fee from us, you can discuss whether your costs can be compensated.