The brand next to you
looks exactly the same.

You pay two or three times more to have your production made in Oldenburg, in Roanne, in Edinburgh. On a product page, you are indistinguishable from a brand that writes European craftsmanship and manufactures elsewhere.

You carry the cost of being honest without getting the benefit. That is the whole problem, and it has never had a cheap solution.

Certification exists. It costs several thousand euros a year, it requires an on-site audit by an accredited body, and it assumes you keep product-by-product cost accounting. It was designed for industrial companies, not for a brand of three people.

Five steps, thirty minutes of your time.

1. You fill in the file15 min

   Your company number, your workshop's name and address, the product categories concerned, and two or three recent invoices from that workshop.

2. We pre-screen itfree

   We cross-check the national registers and the internal consistency of your documents. If the file cannot work, we tell you and nothing is invoiced.

3. You are invoicedonly now

   Once the file is admissible, and never before. The fee pays for the examination, not for its outcome.

4. The call15 min

   You show us the workshop live. We give two instructions drawn at random at that moment, and ask two factual questions about your file. The conversation is not recorded. Only the sequence where you turn the camera to the workshop is recorded, as the evidence behind your record, and no one may be in frame.

5. The record is published

   With its number, its date, the city, the scope it covers and the scope it does not. You receive the mark and its embed code.

One hundred eighty euros
a year.

Your record does not expire, it simply carries its date. Once a year you can refresh it, which is included. If you have changed workshop in the meantime, that new workshop is examined and charged separately.

We price by the number of places we have to check, not by the number of products you sell. A workshop already in the register costs you nothing extra.

Same price for every brand, whether your listing on collectioneu.com is free or paid. Paying more for visibility does not buy a better verification, and we would rather write that down than be asked.

The fair questions.

Why now?

From 27 September 2026, EU rules stop brands from calling themselves sustainable, responsible or eco without proof, and ban self-made sustainability logos. Where a garment is made is a geographical fact, not an environmental claim, so it escapes that regime. It is about to become the one argument that still works, which is a good reason to be able to show it.

Is this mandatory?

No. Nothing obliges you to be verified. But misleading a buyer about geographical origin has been prohibited since 2005, and an authority may require you to prove a factual claim. A dated file is the difference between proving it and hoping.

I already say it on my website.

So does the brand next to you, with the same words. The difference is not what you say, it is that someone else can confirm it and that a customer can check without taking your word for it.

My workshop does not want to be named.

By default we publish the city only, never the name or address. Naming a workshop requires its own written consent, given case by case and revocable. We know what a client list is worth in this trade.

You list brands and you verify them. Are you judge and jury?

We sell no product and take no commission on any sale. Our fees are public, fixed, and identical for everyone, and they are paid for the examination, never for its outcome. A verified status has no effect on ranking in the directory. And anyone who doubts a record can contest it: the decision report behind every record is hashed and published, so it can be produced and checked.

What if you refuse me?

A refusal is never published, and never disclosed to anyone. Pre-screening is free precisely so that a file that cannot work is stopped before you pay.