A customer sends a questionnaire. A rule you had not heard of applies next year. Your pilot needs a partner before an investor will look. We work with small companies and founders on what each one asks for.
Five answers, two minutes. Nothing is stored unless you send it to us. Guidance, not legal advice.
Find yours first. Then read what usually lands on its desk.
Brands, manufacturers, processors and importers. The ask comes from a customer, a tender, an auditor or a border. We set out which rules are likely to reach you, from which date, and get the data behind the answer in order.
EU rules and product data
Founders, spin-outs and research teams moving from a low technology readiness level (the lab) to a high one (ready for market). Grants tend to end at proof of concept and investors tend to wait for a pilot. We read where you stand, plan the next level and find the calls that fit.
Readiness and go-to-marketSix requests that arrive now, often from a customer rather than an authority. Where each comes from, and what we do with you.
A customer’s sustainability questionnaire, in their format, with a deadline.
Match each question to the voluntary standard, gather those figures from your records, and mark what goes beyond it. The cap applies from 2027; other laws are separate.
What the foundation has done, and where to check it.
read from the official text and checked on a date, last on 30 September 2026.
Every rule, by topicDissemination partner in Saxion’s two-year passport project across a working denim supply chain. Publicly funded.
The projectDirectors from material science, fertiliser technology and industrial ventures, and two who work on product and supplier data.
Who you will work withA Dutch foundation (stichting). Guidance, not legal advice, and no money awarded.
About the foundationBring the questionnaire, the tender, the label or the technology. We say in the first conversation whether we are the right people for it, and what we would do first.
