Implications of EU’s new regulation for deforestation-free supply chains: EUDR in focus

On June 29, 2023, the new EU regulation for deforestation-free supply chains (EUDR) came into force. And though this should prevent the degradation of forests, especially in the agricultural sector (cattle breeding, soybean, palm oil plantations, etc.), it also entails a number of additional obligations and temporary open questions for the timber trade. In order to clarify the latter as quickly as possible respectively to provide a preliminary interpretation of the regulation a webinar on June 26, 2023 as part of the EU-funded LIFE Legal Wood project provided information on key data that had already been established ...