Disaster Averted - But Not Solved The European Commission has proposed to delay the Deforestation free products regulation (EU DR) by 12 months.
The law has been in place since May 2023, and was due to enter into effect on 30 December 2024.
EU DR requires that targeted commodities (cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, wood) and relevant products sold in the EU must not be produced on land that was deforested after 2020.