EUDR: German and Austrian forestry industry call for bureaucracy reduction

At the EU symposium “New EU legislation – new political guidelines?” in Berlin, the German Forestry Council (DFWR) and the Austrian cooperation platform Forest Wood Paper (FHP) are strongly calling for a substantive revision of the EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains (EUDR). "Everyone is talking about the urgent need to reduce bureaucracy. The European Parliament has acted with a clear majority to protect countries with already effective forest protection standards from unnecessary bureaucracy created by the EUDR. But the European member states and actors in the European Commission are doing the opposite. Acting against the majority democratic will ...