The standard full name is 《Leather -Chemical,physical and mechanical and fastness test - Sampling location》.BS EN ISO 2418-2017 has been prepared by technical committee iultcs international union of leather technologists and chemists societies in collaboration with the technical committee cen / tc) "leather", the secretariat of which is held by UN I.

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of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by august 2017 and con flicting nation al standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by august 2017.

Accordi ng to the community that the intern al regulations, the nation al standards organizations of the following countries are bou nd to implement this european standard: austria, belgium, bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, czech republic, denmark, estonia, finland, for1n and former yugoslav republic of macedonia, france, germany, greece, ireland, italy, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, nds, orway, polan, roma nia, portugal, serbia, slovakia, slovenia, spain, switzerland, swed, you rkey and the united kingdom.

This document specifies the location of a laboratory sample within a piece of leather and the method of labelling and marking the laboratory samples for future identification.

It is applicable to all types of leather derived from mammals irrespective of the tanning used. it is not applicable to leathers derived from birds, fish, reptiles, or furs.