Action required now by wood suppliers to meet EUDR requirements

Tropical wood exporters to the EU need already to be collecting the due diligence data - including evidence that wood is legal and deforestation-free and the geo- coordinates of all the individual plots of land (defined as a single real estate property) from which all wood products are sourced - to ensure they can meet the requirements of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) when enforcement begins on 30 December 2024. This was the key message in relation to EUDR from the ITTO Annual Market Discussion held on 14 November in Pattaya, Thailand, as part of the 59th Session of the ...