Euroleather

LWG, SLF and ICEC sign at Lineapelle the Terms of Reference of the COTANCE initiative of alignment of Leather Traceability Schemes The COTANCE initiative on alignment of Leather Traceability Schemes was launched at the last Lineapelle Fair, back in Septemb...

LEATECH at Lineapelle: COTANCE presented the First International Masters’ Programme for the tanning industry where the World’s leather sector meets COTANCE Secretary General, Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano, spread the Word about LEATECH at Lineapelle, the Word’s...

COTANCE is sad to convey the passing of Ursula Mandenoff, a key person in COTANCE throughout her 44-year career in the leather industry. Mrs Mandenoff was COTANCE's French representative from the very first day in 1969 to the beginning of the new millenium....

Earth’s Legacy - A Place for Leather The undersigned representatives of the global leather industry are united in our conviction that natural materials, such as leather, have a vital role to play in addressing the challenges of climate change. Leather is...

Social Partners and Steering Committee hold first meeting in Milan 23 September 2022 This week, the steering group for the new EU funded social dialogue project, Green Deal Leather (GDL) met in Milan to kick off the project with affiliates from Austria, F...

COTANCE offers a meeting point to leather sector certification bodies for discussing standardisation of core requirements for traceability Transparency and Traceability catch increasing attention in the leather market, as legislation and customer requests ...

Statement on the EP vote of 13 September 2022 on the exclusion of Leather in the EU proposed legislation to curb Deforestation A divided European Parliament on excluding leather from the proposed EU rules on Deforestation The European Parliament voted on ...

In the majority of Member States, the adequacy of minimum wage is insufficient and/or there are gaps in the coverage of minimum wage protection, even though minimum wage protection exists in all EU Member States, either by legislative provisions (“statutory...

In a new legislative proposal that will require companies (with some SME considerations) to exert due diligence and apply traceability, the Commission has proposed to prohibit products made with forced labour on the EU market. The proposal covers all produc...

GREEN DEAL LEATHER: A new project leading towards Zero Adverse Impact of the European Leather Industry On 9 September 2022, COTANCE and industriAll Europe held the kick-off meeting of their new social dialogue project ’Towards Zero Adverse Impact of the Eu...