Strasbourg, 19 September 2024
“We call on the Commission to immediately delay the implementation of the Deforestation Law,” say Herbert Dorfmann MEP and Peter Liese MEP, EPP Group Spokesmen in the Parliament’s Agriculture and Environment Committees, respectively.
“Farmers, retailers, small and large businesses and Member State governments are deeply concerned about the jungle of implementing rules that will apply to several production sectors. The bureaucratic monster threatens the supply of animal feed and the trade of many consumer goods. The Commission must take enough time to fix the many problems with the legislation,” Dorfmann and Liese demand.
If nothing is done, the new rules, which aim to stop the clearing of forests for the production of soy, coffee, cattle, and other products, but which create enormous bureaucracy for European businesses, will come into force on 30 December 2024.
Source – EPP Group