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Last update: May 7, 2024
Deforestation Regulation: What a group of member states is now demanding from the EU Commission
With a ministerial letter to EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, Germany and other member states have emphasized their demand to create the necessary basis for the EU Deforestation Regulation to enter into force. The background to the German initiative is delays by the EU Commission in the digital information system and the so-called country benchmarking – a list that assigns each country a certain risk level for deforestation. Both Germany and the co-signatories of the letter – Bulgaria, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and Hungary – see these as key prerequisites for the implementation of the regulation.