Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2025 | Paz Velasco Velazquez Head of Unit | Presentation of the Green Threads project and exploration of potential areas of collaboration | — |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Paz Velasco Velazquez Head of Unit | Presentation of the Green Threads project and exploration of potential areas of collaboration | SRC |
| 02 Jun 2025 | Luis Planas Herrera Cabinet member | Textiles | — |
| 02 Jun 2025 | Luis Planas Herrera Cabinet member | Textiles | SRC |
| 22 May 2025 | Valentina Schaumburger Cabinet member | To present Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and its activities to support the fashion industry in the transition towards a more sustainable and circular sector. | SRC |
| 22 May 2025 | Valentina Schaumburger Cabinet member | To present Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and its activities to support the fashion industry in the transition towards a more sustainable and circular sector. | — |
| 07 Oct 2022 | Rozalina Petrova Cabinet member | To exchange on the commitments of the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, including sustainability and information requirements for textiles, tackling green-washing and promoting circular business models | — |
| 07 Oct 2022 | Rozalina Petrova Cabinet member | To exchange on the commitments of the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, including sustainability and information requirements for textiles, tackling green-washing and promoting circular business models | SRC |
| 07 Oct 2022 | Eszter Batta Cabinet member | Sustainable textiles | SRC |
| 07 Oct 2022 | Eszter Batta Cabinet member | Sustainable textiles | — |
| 25 Jan 2022 | Virginijus Sinkevičius Commissioner | To discuss key challenges and opportunities for business in the context of the green transition to more sustainable and circular textiles | SRC |
| 25 Jan 2022 | Virginijus Sinkevičius Commissioner | To discuss key challenges and opportunities for business in the context of the green transition to more sustainable and circular textiles | — |
| 17 Jun 2021 | Rozalina Petrova Cabinet member | To discuss the forthcoming EU textiles strategy | SRC |
| 17 Jun 2021 | Virginijus Sinkevičius Commissioner | To discuss the forthcoming EU textiles strategy | SRC |
| 17 Jun 2021 | Rozalina Petrova Cabinet member | To discuss the forthcoming EU textiles strategy | — |
| 17 Jun 2021 | Virginijus Sinkevičius Commissioner | To discuss the forthcoming EU textiles strategy | — |
| 15 Jun 2021 | Rozalina Petrova Cabinet member | Green claims, consumer empowerment, Textiles Strategy and EU sustainable product policy | SRC |
| 15 Jun 2021 | Rozalina Petrova Cabinet member | Green claims, consumer empowerment, Textiles Strategy and EU sustainable product policy | — |
| 15 Jun 2021 | Helena Braun Cabinet member | Green claims, consumer empowerment, Textiles Strategy and EU sustainable product policy | — |
| 15 Jun 2021 | Helena Braun Cabinet member | Green claims, consumer empowerment, Textiles Strategy and EU sustainable product policy | SRC |
| 17 Jul 2020 | Margrethe Vestager Executive Vice-President | To discuss fashion industry and sustainable business principles. | — |
| 17 Jul 2020 | Margrethe Vestager Executive Vice-President | To discuss fashion industry and sustainable business principles. | SRC |
| 30 Jan 2020 | Helena Braun Cabinet member | circular economy and textiles | SRC |
| 30 Jan 2020 | Helena Braun Cabinet member | circular economy and textiles | — |
Mission & Goals
Global Fashion Agenda is a non-profit organisation that fosters industry collaboration on sustainability in fashion to accelerate impact. With the vision of a net positive fashion industry, it drives action by mobilising, inspiring, influencing and educating all stakeholders. The organisation has been leading the movement since 2009 and is behind the renowned international forum on sustainability in fashion, Global Fashion Summit, the Innovation Forum, thought leadership publications. In partnership with its Strategic Partners Global Fashion Agenda spearheads the fashion industry’s journey towards a more sustainable future. Through its work, Global Fashion Agenda reaches thousands of stakeholders including brands, innovators, NGOs, policy makers, manufacturers, investors.
EU Legislative Interests
Environment and climate; Single market, industry, and entrepreneurship; Employment and social rights; Research and innovation.
Communication Activities
Through policy engagement, GFA proactively advocates for legislation and supportive measures that reinforce sustainability targets and incentivise necessary change. We envision a policy framework where legislative and policy initiatives incentivise and appropriately support the fashion industry to become circular and thus more sustainable. Global Fashion Agenda proactively advocates for policy changes and supportive measures that reinforce sustainability targets and prompt policymakers to take informed action to foster necessary change. Our goal is to convene and connect relevant policymakers with fashion industry decision-makers in a collaborative effort to effectively accelerate the fashion industry’s sustainability performance. We aim to reach this goal by educating policymakers about the issues at hand and ensuring policy developments provide support to the industry’s sustainability efforts. The evidence in Global Fashion Agenda’s core publications (e.g. Fashion CEO Agenda) underpins our policy discussions, providing hard facts to guide the industry forward. GFA´s policy events include: -on 7 July 2020 on the impact of COVID-19 on the EU textile policy with important stakeholder voices as speakers, including Commissioner Sinkevičius. -on 19 May 2021 on the Policy Gaps & Opportunities related to each of the 5 Fashion CEO Agenda priorities (Respectful and Secure Work Environments, Better Wage Systems, Circular Systems, Efficient Use of Resources and Smart Material Choice). -Policy roundtables during GFA´s Global Fashion Summits. Global Fashion Agenda is a founding member of the Policy Hub- circularity for apparel and footwear. The Policy Hub unites the apparel and footwear industry to speak in one voice and propose policies that accelerate circular practices. Launched in 2019, the Policy Hub currently has 3 partner organisations: Cascale, Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) &the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI). In total, these organisations represent more than 700 apparel & footwear stakeholders including brands, retailers, manufacturers, and NGOs. https://www.policyhub.org
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Additional Information
GFA has secured a grant from UNIDO within the Switch to Circle Economy programme for the total amount of €738,000,- in the period January 2022 to December 2025, identified under UNIDO Project No.: 190161. The grant is for a specific programme GFA is realizing in Bangladesh, as described in the contract with UNIDO: UNIDO contracts GFA for the provision of services to scale traceable textile recycling with Bestseller’s suppliers in Bangladesh, to capture and valorise high volumes of their post –industrial textile waste through a circular system that brings greater value and resilience to local manufacturers in the textile and garment sector as part of the “switch to circular economy value chains project (switch2ce). These activities are not connected to the general operations of GFA.