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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.

New European Union rules under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation banned large companies from destroying unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear, aiming to cut the 4-9% of unsold European textiles estimated to be destroyed each year.

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.