Industry bodies ask for more data for social and environmental report
10/07/2019
Representative body of the leather industry in the European Union, COTANCE, and trade union organisation industriAll-Europe published a first EU leather industry social and environmental report in 2012 and are preparing to publish a follow-up study in 2020.
A representative sample of leather manufacturers around the continent have agreed to supply information for the new study and at a meeting in Brussels on July 8 COTANCE said it has already begun to analyse the data that has come in already.
At the meeting the national bodies said they were “reasonably satisfied” with progress so far but called on companies who have not yet completed questionnaires for the study to do so without delay. They said they would help companies in need of support in providing the requested information. The project partners will meet again in November.
As well as analysing progress in the social and environmental performance of leather manufacturers in Europe, this second report will give details of new tools and instruments that will, in the words of COTANCE, help companies “advance on the path to sustainability”. This will include the Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) for leather that COTANCE worked on between 2013 and 2018, securing official support from the European Commission for new rules for calculating the carbon footprint of leather. The report will also give details of the updated OiRA tool (On-line Interactive Risk Assessment) for assessing workplace health and safety risks in tanneries.
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