Leather falls under the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), whose transition period ends at the end of the year. According to the regulation, all market participants have a duty of care to ensure that the raw materials of the products they import from outside the EU have been obtained without deforestation. Given the EU’s classification of leather as a potential factor for deforestation, the Association of the German Leather Industry (VDL) has presented a study commissioned by the Italian tanners’ association Unic and the Italian tanners’ association Cotance, which suggests that there is no direct link between leather and deforestation gives. In the study, for which over 94 million data sets, around 30,000 publications and over 330,000 books were analyzed, leather comes from cattle used for meat and dairy production. The associations therefore conclude that the inclusion of leather in the EUDR will not reduce deforestation and are committed to its deletion.