EUDR: Policy dialogue heats up

Following passage of the EU Deforestation Regulation into law on 31 May and with enforcement now due to start in no more than 15 months, policy makers both inside and outside the EU have been taking a hard look at potential impacts. The world’s media is also waking up to the wider political fallout and implications of the law for global forest products and agricultural supply chains. Perhaps the most prominent concern about the law expressed by politicians and trade analysts outside the EU is the stipulation that producers and traders must provide precise geographical coordinates for ...