1、BSI Standards PublicationBS EN 16484:2015Leather Requirements forthe determination of the originof leather productionBS EN 16484:2015 BRITISH STANDARDNational forewordThis British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 16484:2015. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCo
2、mmittee TCI/69, Footwear, leather and coated fabrics.A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. The Briti
3、sh Standards Institution 2015. Published by BSI Standards Limited 2015ISBN 978 0 580 79941 9 ICS 59.140.30 Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 Nov
4、ember 2015.Amendments/corrigenda issued since publicationDate T e x t a f f e c t e dBS EN 16484:2015EUROPEAN STANDARD NORME EUROPENNE EUROPISCHE NORM EN 16484 November 2015 ICS 59.140.30 English Version Leather - Requirements for the determination of the origin of leather production Cuir - Exigence
5、s relatives la dtermination de lorigine de la production du cuir Leder - Anforderungen an die Bestimmung der Herkunft von Leder This European Standard was approved by CEN on 5 September 2015. CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for
6、 giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member. This European Standard exists in three
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10、de for CEN national Members. Ref. No. EN 16484:2015 EBS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E) 2 Contents Page European foreword . 3 Introduction 4 1 Scope 5 2 Normative references 5 3 Terms and definitions . 5 4 Requirements for the determination of the origin of the leather production 6 4.1 General 6 4.2
11、Tanned leather (e.g. wet blue, wet white, vegetable tanned leather) 6 4.3 Crust (dyed or not) . 6 4.4 Finished leathers . 7 5 Records to verify the country of origin . 7 Annex A (informative) Items to be provided to determine the origin of the leather production . 8 A.1 General 8 A.2 Product identif
12、ication . 8 A.3 Origin of the product 8 A.4 Sales and commercial documentation . 8 A.5 Marking and labelling 8 Bibliography . 10 BS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E) 3 European foreword This document (EN 16484:2015) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 289 “Leather”, the secretariat of which
13、 is held by UNI. This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by May 2016, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by May 2016. Attention is drawn to the possibility th
14、at some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound t
15、o implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, R
16、omania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. BS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E) 4 Introduction This standard has been prepared for defining the conditions for determining the origin of the leather production in conformity with the international Non-Preferenti
17、al Rules of Origin and for fulfilling, where applicable, the requirements for supplying the declaration of the country of origin of the leather production. When the origin of the leather production is declared, it is essential to make it certain that the statement is accurate. Therefore it needs to
18、relate to objective and verifiable requirements. This standard applies to leather only. Leather articles, such as leather bags, leather goods, leather accessories, leather footwear, leather clothes or leather clothes accessories, leather upholstered furniture, etc. are subject to their own respectiv
19、e rules of origin. It is not possible to determine implicitly the origin of leather used (partially or totally) from the declared origin of leather articles. Conversely, the origin of the leather used does not automatically confer the origin to the leather article. BS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E)
20、5 1 Scope This European Standard defines the requirements that are necessary to confer the origin of leather production based on the principle of the last substantial transformation according to Non-Preferential Rules of Origin. This European Standard applies to leather only and it applies also to l
21、eather with hair. Furs are excluded. The country of origin of raw hides and skins isnt relevant for the application of this standard. 2 Normative references The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are indispensable for its application. For dated
22、references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. EN 15987:2015, Leather Terminology Key definitions for the leather trade 3 Terms and definitions For the purposes of this document, the terms and defi
23、nitions given in EN 15987:2015 and the following apply. 3.1 leather hide or skin with its original fibrous structure more or less intact, tanned to be imputrescible, where the hair or wool may or may not have been removed, whether or not the hide or skin has been split into layers or segmented eithe
24、r before or after tanning and where any surface coating or surface layer, however applied, is not thicker than 0,15 mm Note 1 to entry: If the tanned hide or skin is disintegrated mechanically and/or chemically into fibrous particles, small pieces or powders and then, with or without the combination
25、 of a binding agent, is made into sheets or other forms, such sheets or forms are not leather. Note 2 to entry: If the grain layer has been completely removed, the term leather will not be used without further qualification, e.g. split leather, suede leather. SOURCE: EN 15987:2015, 4.1.1 3.2 raw hid
26、es or skins fresh, refrigerated, dried, dry-salted, salted hides or skins 3.3 tanned leather hides and skins converted to leather by a tanning process (see 3.5) 3.4 crust leather which is tanned, fatliquored and dried, before finishing SOURCE: EN 15987:2015, 4.1.3 BS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E) 6
27、 3.5 tanning processing of perishable raw hides and skins by the use of tanning materials into the permanent and imputrescible form of leather 3.6 retanning-dyeing-fatliquoring process that subjects an already tanned leather to a further tanning treatment to modify its properties using an agent of t
28、he same, or entirely different, type, introducing oil into the leather by drumming it with an oil-in-water emulsion, and conferring to the leather the desired colour with the appropriate dyes 3.7 finishing broad series of surface treatments applied to leather to give it the desired look, feel or tou
29、ch, such as applying pigmented or non-pigmented finishes and seasons or coatings, or simply shining the leather or removing the grain surface by buffing, etc 3.8 origin of the leather production country where the leather was submitted to the last substantial transformation 3.9 substantial transforma
30、tion process step in the production of leather of such relevance as to confer to it significantly different properties and thus capable of imprinting an origin 3.10 company producer of leather who wants to declare the origin of the leather production 4 Requirements for the determination of the origi
31、n of the leather production 4.1 General In order to determine the origin of the leather production, the country where it has been submitted to the last substantial transformation needs to be ascertained. Consequently leather at different stages of production can be considered coming from/produced in
32、 a given Country if they comply with the rules explained in 4.2, 4.3, 4.4. 4.2 Tanned leather (e.g. wet blue, wet white, vegetable tanned leather) Starting from raw hides/skins, the substantial transformation shall be the tanning phase. EXAMPLE The denomination will be “Tanned (or wet blue, wet whit
33、e etc.) leather from Country A”. 4.3 Crust (dyed or not) The substantial transformation shall be the process step of “retanning-fatliquoring-(dyeing)”. EXAMPLE The denomination will be “Crust from Country A”. Crust from country A, shall obtain the origin of the Country B only if it is additionally s
34、ubmitted to the process step of “retanning-fatliquoring-(dyeing)” in country B. BS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E) 7 4.4 Finished leathers The origin of a finished leather shall be the country where “retanning-fatliquoring-dyeing” takes place. If the finishing takes place in a different country than
35、the retanning- fatliquoring-dyeing, then it shall be indicated separately. 5 Records to verify the country of origin The origin of the leather shall be demonstrated and recorded. The geographic-origin shall be demonstrated at least through objective documents of transaction or of production, which a
36、re capable to demonstrate where the substantial transformations have been carried out. This documentation shall not be replaced by a company self-declaration. BS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E) 8 Annex A (informative) Items to be provided to determine the origin of the leather production A.1 General
37、In order to determine the origin of the leather production and to communicate it in a transparent way, the company should prepare the items described in A.2, A.3, A.4, A.5. A.2 Product identification The company should univocally identify and list the products of which it wants the origin to be decl
38、ared, according to the requirements listed in Clause 4 (for example with a product code, the name of the article, etc.). A.3 Origin of the product The company should demonstrate the origin of the products according to A.2, by keeping appropriate records of all the phases of substantial transformatio
39、n according to the requirements stated in EN ISO 9001:2008, 7.5.3. Examples of appropriate registrations can be: documents of process control, production orders, working cards, documents of transport, all that is an input/output registration of the working defined as substantial for the origin decla
40、ration. A.4 Sales and commercial documentation In case the company wants to create sales and commercial documents of the leather whose origin declaration is intended (e.g. packing list, technical sheets, product sheets), they should include the evidence of the origin of the production of the leather
41、 indication, on the basis of the items reported in A.2 and of the related destination. In any case the origin indication shall be referred only to the articles corresponding to the requirements of this standard. A.5 Marking and labelling In case the company wants to mark or label its leathers, they
42、shall be marked or labelled with the information reported in a), b), c), d), that shall be applied in a visible and durable way. If the product is sold outside the country of origin, apart other specifications, the information reported in a), b), c) shall be provided at least in English: a) product
43、identification, as reported in A.2; b) indication of origin, by qualifying the leather referring to the Country of the origin, according to the requirements reported in Clause 4, such as “German Leather”, “Leather from Italy” or “Leather produced in Spain”, etc.; c) indication of the country where t
44、he finishing occurred when different from the country where retanning-fatliquoring dyeing have taken place; BS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E) 9 d) the reference to this standard; e) name or mark of the company. The labelling/marking modalities that satisfy the requirements reported above, could be c
45、hosen by the company between one or more options, such as label put on packing material or point/label directly on the leather. In any case the origin indication shall refer only to the articles corresponding to the requirements of this standard. BS EN 16484:2015EN 16484:2015 (E) 10 Bibliography 1 I
46、nternational Glossary of Leather Terms 2 Leather Technical Dictionary, Eduard Roether Verlag Darmstadt 3 Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code 4 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementatio
47、n of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code 5 Council Regulation (EC) No 1207/2001 of 11 June 2001 on procedures to facilitate the issue or the making out in the Community of proofs of origin and the issue of certain approved exporter authorisations under the pro
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