The European Commission will not delay the law against imported deforestation, but will make it more flexible.

The European Commission will not postpone the implementation of the law against imported deforestation by a computer problem for another year, as it had announced, and the regulation will apply from December 30, 2025, but with some flexibilities in fines and bureaucracy, European sources reported. The college of commissioners of the community executive will approve this Tuesday by written procedure the changes in the regulation that seeks to prevent certain raw materials and derived products consumed in the EU from generating deforestation, since between 1990 and 2020 a larger area of forest mass was destroyed globally than in the EU, and nearly 10% is attributable to European consumption. The regulation, known in community jargon as the EUDR regulation, affects cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soy, wood, and rubber, including derivatives such as leather, chocolate, or furniture, and originally, it should have come into force on November 30, 2024. Presented in 2021 and adopted in ...