(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 3 , 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 4 and Directive 2008/121/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 on textile names 5 have been amended several times. Since further amendments are to be made, those acts should be replaced by a single legal instrument, in the interest of clarity.
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Recital 1