{"id":87987,"date":"2024-08-14T07:28:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/pressure-mounts-to-delay-eu-deforestation-regulation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:02:35","slug":"pressure-mounts-to-delay-eu-deforestation-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/pressure-mounts-to-delay-eu-deforestation-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts to delay EU Deforestation Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pressure on the EU to delay implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) has continued to mount from commodity producing countries worldwide according to leading international media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most recently, supplier country governments have questioned the accuracy of, and definitions used in mapping undertaken for EUDR enforcement by the EU Observatory to identify areas of deforested and degraded forest land.<\/p>\n

The EUDR is set to come into force at the end of 2024. It will require all operators and non-SME traders to undertake due diligence to ensure no timber and six other so-called forest and eco-risk commodities (FERCs) that are placed on or exported from the EU market are implicated in deforestation or forest degradation that has taken place since 2020. It also stipulates that businesses must provide the geolocation coordinates of the plot of land from which commodities originate. The Regulation will extend to SME traders six months later.<\/p>\n

Australia and Brazil demand the delay of EUDR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia and Brazil are \u2018stepping up demands for the [EUDR] to be delayed\u2019, according to a report by the Financial Times (FT). Their latest contention is that the mapping undertaken by the European Observatory to identify deforested and degraded forest land, and which will be one of the pillars of EUDR enforcement, cannot be taken as definitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU\u2019s map is not a single source of truth but acts as one possible source of information for EU operators and competent authorities to determine if deforestation has occurred,\u201d a spokesperson for the Australian embassy in Brussels told the FT.<\/p>\n

The Australians point out that there are differences between their 2023 Forests of Australia map and that of the European Observatory as they use different definitions of forested areas.<\/p>\n

Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva, Brazil\u2019s EU ambassador, also picked up this theme. He said the Brazilian private sector had identified multiple cases of cocoa, coffee and tree plantations that have been misidentified as forests in the European Observatory mapping. Canada and Columbia have also questioned the validity of the mapping.<\/p>\n

\u201cEuropean operators and competent authorities should cooperate with producer governments to use local monitoring systems that have much higher precision rates,\u201d Da Costa e Silva told the FT. He added that Brazil has a free-to-use \u2018state of the art\u2019 monitoring system. He said the EU was imposing European standards and norms on other countries without collaboration and that producers would have to spend millions of euros on private sector compliance systems.<\/p>\n

Columbia\u2019s Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies said its deforestation mapping was similar to the EUs, but the latter\u2019s definition \u201cwould also include areas not considered as deforestation in Colombia, for example conversion of areas of secondary vegetation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Australian embassy in Brussels also highlighted that clarification is needed from the EU on what constitutes \u2018predominantly agricultural land use\u2019 under the EUDR. It said it had requested a delay in introduction of the Regulation \u2018until all required arrangements are understood and effectively in place\u2019, pointing out that several EU member states had not yet appointed Competent Authorities to police the new rules.<\/p>\n

On the issue of mapping, the EC has emphasised that the European Observatory maps were \u2018a tool to help companies to ensure compliance\u2019. They were not mandatory, and other \u2018more granular or detailed\u2019 information could be used as a guide.<\/p>\n

Challenges for the African coffee industry<\/strong><\/p>\n

An article in The Economist titled \u2018How EU do-goodery risks harming Africa\u2019s small farmer\u2019 focuses on the challenges posed by EUDR to the African coffee industry. It quotes representatives of the Ethiopian and Ugandan sectors saying that they were struggling to provide geolocation coordinates for the millions of plots of land where coffee was grown for the EU market. Adding to the complexity of the situation, the African supply chains in coffee and cocoa (another commodity covered by the EUDR) are highly complex, pooling and mixing beans from multiple sources.<\/p>\n

Enveritas, a sustainability assurance specialist, is putting forward an alternative approach, using satellite imagery to identify fields here trees have been cut down, without requiring geo-locating every farm. The Economist report Ethiopia and Uganda backing this model. The question is whether the EU will accept it.<\/p>\n

Internal EC discontent<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FT reported that the then Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevi\u010dius said there were no plans to delay implementation of the EUDR. He has since resigned to take up a seat in the European parliament. The Environment role has been temporarily taken over by Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, Executive Vice-President of the EC for European Green Deal.<\/p>\n

In another FT article, Senior Trade Correspondent Alan Beattie said that \u2018irritation\u2019 with the EUDR within the EC has \u2018now broken into the open\u2019. It quotes Sabine Weyand, director-general of the trade directorate, as saying; \u201cI think we have to recognise that we have pushed away a number of partners we need through our increased use of autonomous trade measures. We hear that increasingly on measures like the deforestation regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

She suggests widening EU support to the developing world, including via its \u2018Global Gateway\u2019, strategy for increasing investment, particularly for the climate transition and especially in Africa.<\/p>\n

The article also quotes Odrek Rwabwogo, senior adviser to the president of Uganda on trade. He urged more support for Uganda\u2019s wish to move up the value chain into further processing, rather than stay an exporter of unprocessed commodities and, for instance, roast coffee in-country rather than use more land simply to expand the production of low-value green coffee beans. \u201c[But] our conversations with Europe are not on the level we would like,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want them to be about growth, but they are just about compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FT article concludes that a delay in introducing the EUDR \u2018seems wise\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the EU should use the time not just to iron out the obvious compliance wrinkles, but to give some thought to how climate, trade and development policies might be combined into a more coherent strategy,\u201d it says.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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