- Members of the European Parliament will vote Tuesday (13 September) on a new regulation forcing companies to prove that their products have not contributed to the destruction of forests before they are allowed on the EU market.
- To tackle this, MEPs in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee supported a more ambitious proposal in July, which enlarges the scope of the regulation to include more products, increases the number of checks on companies and protects more nature by including other natural ecosystems such as grasslands, peatlands and wetlands.
- Companies would be responsible to verify that goods are produced respecting human rights under international law and the rights of indigenous peoples.
Parliament urged to back EU law on deforestation-free products
