The Spanish importer Félix Lurbe is concerned about the EU's anti-deforestation regulation: "We are going to sell papers in

Félix Lurbe is a Spanish cattle meat importer who, for over 40 years, has been purchasing goods from Argentine slaughterhouses. The entrepreneur attended the Anuga fair, held in Cologne, Germany, to conduct business and also to meet with Argentine officials and IPCVA executives, with the aim of understanding how the Visec Carne platform works. After the meeting, he spoke with Bichos de Campo about European regulation 1115, which requires certifying that the products entering that economic bloc were produced on fields not deforested after 2020. Félix expressed concern about the trade barriers this implies and highlighted: “This complicates the business due to the paperwork it demands. We will have to assign people to handle this with an added cost.” “This generates more bureaucracy. In the end, we will be selling papers instead of meat,” he said, frustrated. Regarding what Argentine entrepreneurs, together with national authorities, are doing to overcome this new obstacle, he said: ...