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Roberta Metsola and the Council presidency sign Directive (EU) 2022/2381 in Strasbourg, requiring large EU listed companies to have at least 40% of non-executive seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex by 30 June 2026.

Directive (EU) 2023/970, signed in Strasbourg on 10 May 2023, gives job applicants the right to see a salary range, bans questions about pay history and makes employers with 100 or more workers publish gender pay gap figures.

The EU's Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, coordinated by the European Commission and led by authorities in Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands, notified Shein on 26 May 2025 that practices on its platform, including fake discounts, breach EU consumer law. Shein was given one month to propose fixes.

The 7 June 2026 deadline to write the Pay Transparency Directive into national law passed with only Italy, Slovakia and Malta (and, by some counts, Lithuania) done; the Netherlands, Sweden, Czechia and Denmark said they would apply it from 1 January 2027.

From 30 June 2026 large listed companies across the EU are expected to have at least 40% of non-executive board seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex, the target date set in the Women on Boards Directive.

EU member states reached political agreement on 13 November 2025 to scrap the €150 customs-duty exemption for low-value parcels earlier than originally planned. The exemption ends and a flat customs duty on direct-to-consumer packages begins on 1 July 2026, targeting the flood of parcels shipped directly to EU shoppers by platforms such as Shein and Temu.

Employers in the EU with 150 or more workers must file their first gender pay gap reports, covering 2026, by 7 June 2027 under the Pay Transparency Directive; those with 250 or more workers must then report every year.

Member states must write Directive (EU) 2024/1385, the EU's first law on violence against women, into national law by 14 June 2027, including new crimes of female genital mutilation, forced marriage, cyber stalking and sharing intimate images without consent.

EU member states must have mandatory extended-producer-responsibility schemes for textiles and footwear running by 16 April 2028, 30 months after the revised Waste Framework Directive entered into force. The schemes make clothing and footwear makers fund the collection, sorting and recycling of textile waste.