The European Commission has postponed the implementation of the Regulation on deforestation until the end of 2025

The European Commission has published additional guidance documents to "strengthen support" for the new Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). According to it, companies that supply the EU with cocoa, coffee, palm oil, cattle, soybeans, rubber and wood must provide proof that the production of the products is not related to deforestation and that the products are obtained from legal sources.

The new Regulation stipulates that only those companies will receive permission to sell products in the EU, which will document that the production of products was not carried out on lands obtained by cutting down forests, and that it did not lead to forest degradation after December 31, 2020.

The purpose of the Regulation is to reduce the EU's contribution to global deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and global biodiversity loss.

The new Regulation is supposed to replace the EU law on timber and enter into force in December 2024. If it is approved by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, it will start to apply not from December 30, 2024, as previously thought, but from December 30, 2025 for large companies and with June 30, 2026 for micro and small enterprises.

The European Commission states that the tools for the technical implementation of the law are already ready, and the additional 12 months will be "a period of phased introduction of new measures."