Majority of EU states support postponement of EUDR

A majority of EU agriculture ministers are urging the EU Commission to initially put the deforestation regulation on hold. The EU Commission wants to reduce bureaucracy, but the next bureaucratic monster is already on the way with the planned EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), and not only forest farmers and the timber industry are affected. More and more bureaucracy for forest owners? According to the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, for example, under current regulations, a cattle farmer in a mountainous area would have to provide the GPS geolocation of the farm location where the cattle were raised for ...