European Commissioner says deforestation regulation is a "top priority"

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According to a statement by European Environment Commissioner Sinkevičius when he met with the European Parliament ENVI Committee on 30 May "the proposed regulation on deforestation will be one of the top priorities for our cooperation in the coming months".

Commissioner Sinkevičius said that "Global events and alarming deforestation rates in the greatest rainforest of the Earth remind us of the urgency of the task and I know that this Committee and this Parliament as a whole, share the sense of urgency".

Commissioner Sinkevičius went on to express the hope that "once both co-legislators have finalised their positions we can launch the trilogues under the Czech Presidency of the Council and reach an agreement as soon as possible”.

Note: the Czech Presidency of the Council will be held between 1 July and 31 December 2022. Trilogues are informal tripartite meetings on legislative proposals between representatives of the Parliament, the Council and the Commission. Their purpose is to reach a provisional agreement on a text acceptable to both the Council and the Parliament.

From the EC perspective, Commissioner Sinkevičius expressed a desire for “An agreement, which allows us to effectively tackle the [deforestation] problem and which therefore needs to be ambitious and needs to retain the core features of our proposal: the due diligence obligations for operators and large traders, the strict traceability, the coverage of legal and illegal deforestation, and the benchmarking system".

In other developments related to the proposed deforestation regulation include:

A comprehensive summary of the draft legislation, the starting positions of the European Council and European Parliament, and the positions of key stakeholders,

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