Leather Industry

Abstract

The strategy objective of this task was to have a first approach to the offer and demand sides of Environmental services in the project areas. For performing this activity it was also necessary to obtain the starting situation of the adopted environmental measures in support of SMEs in the leather sector. This report provides inputs for policy makers about environmental needs in the leather industry in the consortium countries. As required by the call for proposal, in each project area a survey was carried out for having a clear and wide situation with regard to the relevant Environmental support of the SMEs. In particular the survey concerned the public schemes (funding sources and modalities, ongoing and planned tasks, types of expertise, use of human resources, etc.) and private initiatives (actors, Environmental Service Providers (ESPs), level of competences and expertise, capacity/work force, service range, costs to SMEs, etc.) Involving all the partnership, the project Coordinator (CCIA) prepared a common factsheet for driving the activities at national and local scale, the European dimension was included in each project area. Each partner was in charge for national and local survey. The Environmental legislation and standards applied in the leather industry sector are included in the countries fact sheets as well. A summary of these fact-sheets and an analysis of the results is performed in part II - Fact sheets from countries. For what concerns the private sectors, an online survey was carried out in the EEN-PACT partner countries and their results about the environmental demand and offer of the leather industry sector are shown in part III – EEN- PACT survey on environmental services.