Letter | 120+ companies and NGOs for the EU Deforestation Regulation

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) was adopted in 2023 after years of careful negotiation and compromise. It offers a legal framework for addressing the EU’s role in global deforestation and forest degradation. It is intended to mitigate the climate, biodiversity, human rights and economic risks of forest loss caused by EU consumption. According to the European Commission, the sole purpose of its proposal to amend the EUDR is to avoid urgent and unanticipated issues with its IT system. Targeted technical adjustments adopted swiftly could have improved implementation, clarity and fairness. Instead, the Council of the EU and European Parliament are proposing far-reaching changes that distort the objective of the Commission’s proposal and throw the future of the EUDR into question, while putting additional administrative burden on companies. 

The companies, investors, non-governmental and civil society organisations represented in this statement stand united in strong opposition to any further delay or weakening of the EUDR.

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