With the new European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) soon to be replacing the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR), a new research has revealed that timber importers across the UK, Belgium, Austria, France and Italy are worryingly unprepared for the upcoming changes in regulation.  It is very likely that EUDR will now set mandatory due diligence obligations for importers that place commodities on the EU market for the first time. The requirement to prove due diligence all the way back to the source will require a step change from the industry globally.  A iov42 research ...