US EditionEuropean Parliament Agrees to Dilute Deforestation Rules
The European Parliament voted 402 to 250 to delay the law and ease due diligence for businesses to reduce administrative burdens and address IT system issues.
- On Wednesday, the European Parliament approved a revision of the EU regulation on deforestation-free products, softening due diligence and postponing its application by one year, and will negotiate with EU member states.
- The European Commission proposed delaying the regulation by one year, citing technical issues with the IT system for due-diligence statements, while EU ambassadors backed the postponement and softened requirements.
- MEPs voted to approve the revision with 402 votes in favour, 250 against and eight abstentions, making only operators who first place a product on the market responsible for due diligence while micro and small primary operators provide a one-off simplified declaration.
- The vote exposed a fracture in the majority supporting Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, as Renew Europe joined the centre-right majority backing the EPP's changes.
- Following similar votes weeks ago, the regulation targets cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood, and the revised text includes a review of the law's impact and administrative burden.
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EU deforestation regulation delay is a chance to fix what went wrong
The impending delay of the EU deforestation regulation is no failure – it’s an opportunity for Brussels to get things right going forward. The delay reflects mounting domestic unease from farmers, industry and national administrations that earlier warnings about design flaws, costs and feasibility were not addressed.
THE LETTER OF BRUSSELS. Too complex, the anti-forestation regulation was postponed a second time, causing doubts about the will of Europeans to face multiple pressures.
On Wednesday 26 November, MEPs voted for a further one-year extension of the entry into force of the regulation against deforestation, which will be implemented not in December 2025, but a year later, officially for technical reasons, partly because of the alliance between the right and the far right, which are continuing their desire to demolish the European Green Pact.
The European Parliament adopted with a large majority the postponement of the entry into force of the text until the end of 2026.
Stopped by a computer concern, a European law aimed at combating deforestation should be postponed for a year... for the second time in a row. Some see it as a new disconnection of the Green Deal. ...
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