18.10.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 2721 | (Legislative acts) REGULATIONS REGULATION (EU) No 1007/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 September 2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products and repealing Council Directive 73[44/EEC and Directives 96/73/EC and 2008/121/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 114 thereof, () Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1), Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (3), Whereas: (1) Council Directive 73/44/EEC of 26 February 1973 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the quantitative analysis of ternary fibre mixtures (%), Directive 96/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 on certain methods for the quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures () and Directive 2008/121/EC  of the (4) European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 on textile names (°) have been amended several () OJ C 255, 22.9.2010, p. 37. (3) Position of the European Parliament of 18 May 2010 (O] C 161 E, 31.5.2011, p. 179) and position of the Council at first reading of 6 December 2010 (O] C 50 E, 17.2.2011, p. 1). Position of the European Parliament of 11 May 2011 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 19 July 2011. ¢) OJ L 83, 30.3.1973, p. 1. % OJ L 32, 3.2.1997, p. 1. () OJ L 19, 23.1.2009, p. 29. times. Since further amendments are to be made, those acts should be replaced by a single legal instrument, in the interest of clarity. The legal acts of the Union on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of fibre composition of textile products are very technical in their content, with detailed provisions that need to be adapted regularly. In order to avoid the need for Member States to transpose the technical amendments into national legislation and thus reduce the administrative burden for national authorities and in order to allow for a faster adoption of new textile fibre names to be used simultaneously throughout the Union, a regulation seems to be the most appropriate legal instrument to carry out the legis- lative simplification. In order to eliminate potential obstacles to the proper functioning of the internal market caused by Member States’ diverging provisions with regard to textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of fibre composition of textile products, it is necessary to harmonise the names of textile fibres and the indications appearing on labels, markings and documents which accompany textile products at the various stages of their production, processing and distribution. The labelling and marking requirements laid down in this Regulation should not apply in cases where textile products are contracted out to persons working in their own homes or to independent firms that carry out work from materials supplied to them without the property therein being transferred for consideration or where customised textile products are made up by self- employed tailors. However, those exemptions should be limited to the transactions between those persons working in their own homes or independent firms and the persons contracting out work to them, and between self-employed tailors and consumers.