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The EU Deforestation Due Diligence Proposal: Key issues for the trilogue

  • 19/10/2022
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On 17 November 2021, the European Commission (“Commission”) published a Proposal for a Regulation on placing on the EU market and exporting from the European Union wood, cattle (beef), cocoa, coffee, palm oil and soy and derived products associated with deforestation and forest degradation (“Proposed Regulation”). According to the Proposed Regulation, those products (irrespective of their origin) may no longer be placed or made available on the EU market or be exported from the EU market, unless they are deforestation-free.

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