In February 2018, the European Commission (EC) proposed to amend Annex XVII of REACH directive by adding new entry to restrict the presence of 33 chemicals in clothing, footwear and textile products.
Below tables show those newly restricted chemicals and their respective limits：
| No. | Categories | Chemicals | Limits | |
| 1 | Extractable Heavy elements | Cadmium and its compounds | 1 mg/kg (expressed as each metal that can be extracted from the material) | |
| 2 | Chromium VI compounds | |||
| 3 | Arsenic compounds | |||
| 4 | Lead and its compounds | |||
| 5 | PolycyclicAromaticHydrocarbons | Benz[a]anthracene | 1 mg/kg each | |
| 6 | Benz [e] acephenanthrylene | |||
| 7 | Benzo [a] pyrene;Benzo [def] chrysene | |||
| 8 | Benzo [e] pyrene | |||
| 9 | Benzo [j] fluoranthene | |||
| 10 | Benzo [k] fluoranthene | |||
| 11 | Chrysene | |||
| 12 | Dibenz [a,h] anthracene | |||
| 13 | Chlorotoluenes | a, a, a, 4-tetrachlorotoluene;p-chlorobenzotrichloride | 1 mg/kg each | |
| 14 | a, a, a, -trichlorotoluene;benzotrichloride | |||
| 15 | a-chlorotoluene; benzyl chloride | |||
| 16 | Formaldehyde | Formaldehyde | 75 mg/kg | |
| 17 | Phthalates | 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid;di-C 6-8-branched alkylesters,C 7-rich | 1000 mg/kg individually or in combination with other phthalates in this entry or in other entries of Annex XVII | |
| 18 | Bis(2-methoxyethyl) phthalate | |||
| 19 | Diisopentylphthalate | |||
| 20 | Di-n-pentyl phthalate (DPP) | |||
| 21 | Di-n-hexyl phthalate (DnHP) | |||
| 22 | Solvents | Benzene | 5 mg/kg | |
| 23 | N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone; 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) | 3000 mg/kg each | ||
| 24 | N,N-dimethylacetamide(DMAC) | |||
| 25 | N,N-dimethylformamide;dimethyl formamide (DMF) | |||
| 26 | Dyestuffs | 1,4,5,8-tetraaminoanthraquinone; C.I. Disperse Blue 1 | 50 mg/kg each | |
| 27 | Benzenamine, 4,4′-(4-iminocyclohexa-2,5-dienylidenemethylene) dianilinehydrochloride; C.I. Basic Red 9 | |||
| 28 | [4-[4,4′-bis(dimethylamino) benzhydrylidene]cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene] dimethylammoniumchloride; C.I. Basic Violet 3with ≥ 0,1 % of Michler’sketone (EC no. 202-027-5) | |||
| 29 | Others | 4-chloro-o-toluidinium chloride | 30 mg/kg each | |
| 30 | 2-Naphthylammoniumacetate | |||
| 31 | 4-methoxy-m-phenylenediammonium sulphate; 2,4-diaminoanisole sulphate | |||
| 32 | 2,4,5-trimethylaniline hydrochloride | |||
| 33 | Quinoline | 50 mg/kg |
Several articles are exempted from the requirements:
- Clothing, related accessories or footwear, or parts of clothing, related accessories or footwear, made exclusively of natural leather, fur or hide.
- Non-textile fasteners and non-textile decorative attachments.
- Second-hand clothing, related accessories, textiles other than clothing or footwear.
- Personal protective equipment and medical devices within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2016/425 and Regulation (EU) 2017/745 respectively.
- Disposable textiles, which are textiles that are designed to be used only once or for a limited time and are not intended for subsequent use for the same or a similar purpose.
