Deforestation Regulation: What a group o • Table.Briefings

The import of cocoa is also to be regulated by the Deforestation Regulation.

In a ministerial letter to EU Environment Commissioner Sinkevičius, Germany and other EU member states are calling to speed up the Deforestation Regulation. So far, the EU Commission has lagged behind in terms of country benchmarking and the digital information system. One member of the Commission is therefore already in favor of allowing the rules of the regulation to enter into force later.

With a ministerial letter to EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, Germany and other member states have emphasized their demand to create the necessary basis for the EU Deforestation Regulation to enter into force. The background to the German initiative is delays by the EU Commission in the digital information system and the so-called country benchmarking – a list that assigns each country a certain risk level for deforestation. Both Germany and the co-signatories of the letter – Bulgaria, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and Hungary – see these as key prerequisites for the implementation of the regulation.

Deforestation Regulation: What a group of member states is now demanding from the EU Commission

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