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New EU Deforestation Regulation: Impacts and Challenges
New EU Deforestation Regulation: Impacts and Challenges
Background
On May 16, the UE Council gave the final go-ahead to a regulation that aims to minimize the risk of deforestation and forest degradation associated with products that are placed on or exported from the EU market, setting mandatory due diligence rules for all operators and traders who place, make available or export the following commodities from the EU market: palm oil, cattle, wood, coffee, cocoa, rubber and soy.
BCCC and Proactiva are holding two events to present an overview of how this regulation will impact the Brazilian and Canadian markets.
Session 1: Understanding the New EU Deforestation Regulation
By the new EUDR, the operators will be required to trace the commodities they are selling back to the plot of land where they were produced. This will also take into account the protection of human rights related to deforestation. But exactly what does this mean for the producers and exporters of these commodities? How will companies operating within these commodities' value chains be affected and what demands will be placed on them?
To answer these and other emerging questions, the project's first panel will focus on an introductory approach to regulation.
Session 2: The Challenges of Implementation
The regulation creates a benchmarking system, which assigns a level of risk related to deforestation and forest degradation (low, standard or high) to countries within and outside the EU, and this risk category will determine the level of specific obligations that will be put in place. However, waiting for this risk classification to put solutions in place may result in acting too late. In the second panel, we will hold a debate with businesses and practitioners that are already preparing for the EUDR's enforced application.