The EU Parliament approved significant changes to the EU regulation on deforestation-free supply chains on Thursday: The implementation deadline will be postponed by one year so that larger companies will have to comply with the rules from the end of 2025 and smaller ones from mid-2026. For products such as cocoa, coffee and soy, it must then be ensured that they do not originate from areas that were deforested after 2020. Some EU member states, trading partners and affected companies had been pushing hard for the deadline to be postponed.