More than two years after the National Assembly passed a bill to curb ‘fast fashion’, the parliamentary process is now resuming. The bill, which particularly targets giants like Shein, will be discussed in a highly anticipated session next week.
The legislative proposal from Horizons MP Anne-Cécile Violland was approved by MPs in March 2024 and by the Senate in June 2025. It was then forwarded to the European Commission to check its conformity with European law.
However, the EU Commission rejected the text on several points. This led to long discussions with the French government. This delayed the convening of a joint mediation committee (French: Commission mixte paritaire, CMP), the next necessary step in parliament to pass the law.
Several associations were outraged by this blockade.
This meeting between representatives and senators should lead to a text agreed between both chambers. It has now been called up for June 17th. Violland announced this on Friday, information that was confirmed by the government.
“France has responded decisively and well-reasoned to the European Commission’s comments,” the MEP said in a statement. “The CMP will be precisely the opportunity to find a robust, ambitious and compatible formulation with the European legal framework,” she added.
The proposed law provides a number of tools to curb the growing phenomenon of ‘fast fashion’. This short-lived fashion should be limited through measures such as advertising bans or financial penalties.
“This law must finally distinguish in our law between the companies that have chosen the ecological transition (…) and those that continue to thrive on a destructive model – for the planet, for our health and for jobs in the French textile industry,” emphasized Anne-Cécile Violland.
If a compromise text is passed in the CMP, it must still be approved by both chambers so that the law can finally come into force.
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