UNIC will keep watch for breaches of Italy’s new leather law
The president of UNIC, Gianni Russo, has said that, as well as celebrating the success of securing a new law to protect leather from imitations in Italy, the organisation will play an active role in monitoring compliance.
At the end of May, Italy’s council of ministers approved a new law that will protect the term ‘leather’. As a result, companies that make and sell synthetic substitutes will not be able to misuse the term in their labelling or in the product descriptions they offer.
After the new law’s approval, Gianni Russo said the determination with which UNIC pursued this goal was something he was particularly proud of. He said securing the new law had taken a considerable amount of time owing to changes of government, which caused UNIC to have to start again from scratch in its efforts to convince politicians of the need for change.
He went on to say that UNIC would waste no time in reporting to the authorities any breaches of the new law that it encounters. He added that, when necessary, the tanning industry organisation will embark on legal action of its own to make sure offending companies stop presenting synthetic material as leather.
