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  • Publication | 2023

Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on the making available on the Union market and the export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 - adopted by the co-legislators on 31 May 2023 - aimed at tackling deforestation and forest degradation driven by the European Union (EU). It repeals Regulation (EU) No 995/2010.

Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 - also known as EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) - prohibits illegally harvested timber from being placed on the EU market, and sets out preconditions for the marketing of timber and timber products in the EU. This is part of a wider legislative framework which the European Commission considered to only partially address deforestation.

This Regulation replaces the previous legislative framework. It lays down rules regarding the placing and making available on EU's market, as well as the export from the EU of relevant products, that contain, have been fed with or have been made using relevant commodities, with a view to minimising the EU's contribution to deforestation and forest degradation worldwide, and reducing the EU's contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global biodiversity loss.

This Regulation concerns the following commodities: cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood.