FG has inaugurated a task force on European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in order to avert ban from the EU.

Officials from leading exporters of affected commodities—including Brazil, Indonesia and the Ivory Coast—object to the EU’s regulation. A growing number of governments, international trade organizations and businesses are urging the European Union to reconsider a deforestation regulation set to take effect in December.

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to delay the implementation of an anti-deforestation regulation by a year after months of criticism. Business associations, different political parties and some trading partners of the European Union had called for more time to prepare for the application of the new law.

UK farming bodies have welcomed the EU's proposal to delay the introduction of the deforestation regulation for 12 months to avoid disruption to supply chains.

Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of agricultural commodities have come into focus. While they represent a fresh approach to a vexing intersection of problems,

The Commission published guidance documents to the regulation and proposed to postpone its entry into application to 30 December 2025.

Its EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), announced in late 2021 and intended to help cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit biodiversity loss, was due to come into force before the

The EUDR, which will require that any company that sells a product containing wood in the European Union prove that its source tree was not cut down in a deforested region, is likely to take effect next December,