EU reaches deal to delay and simplify EUDR, extending application to end-2026

The EU institutions have reached a political agreement on a targeted revision of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), preventing what many in the forest and wood sector feared would be an unmanageable administrative load across the entire supply chain. The application of the regulation will be postponed until 30 December 2026, with micro and small operators given until 30 June 2027. The requirement to forward reference numbers through every stage of processing has been removed. For the wood sector, this correction addresses some of the most problematic elements of the original EUDR—while still maintaining the core objective of ...

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