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Edoardo De Paola
Italy
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Vita Kobiela
Ukraine
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Kilian Meersschaert
Belgium
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Catherine Vercheval
Belgium
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New Regional Partnerships boost Skills Development in Europe's TCLF Industries
Press Release: New Regional Partnerships boost Skills Development in Europe's TCLF Industries
Partners from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine gathered in Athens on 2–3 July to advance the Erasmus+ Blueprint METASKILLS4TCLF project, which...
COTANCE Contribution to the Call for Evidence on the EU Biotech Act II
COTANCE welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the forthcoming Biotech Act II and strongly supports the objective of strengthening Europe’s bioeconomy and industrial biotechnology capacity. At the same time, we underline that the European leather...
UNIDO has just published its Guidelines for Assessing the Environmental Footprint of Leather
UNIDO has just published its Guidelines for Assessing the Environmental Footprint of Leather, which is the most thorough and credible assessment of leather's environmental performance up to date.
The Guidelines say:
"Hides and skins from animals slaughtered for human food consumption have been defined as...
COTANCE Participated in the Public Consultation to support leather's exclusion from the EUDR
COTANCE: The Confederation of Tanners of the European Community welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to exclude hides, skins and leather from the product scope of the implementing measures under Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products (EUDR) published in the Draft Delegated...
