28/01/25
The EU Deforestation Law is only as good as its implementation. That’s why we have signed an open letter alongside 39 other organisations calling on the European Commission to ensure the country benchmarking objectively reflects real human rights and environmental risks.
In our letter, we urge the Commission to ensure that the benchmarking methodology:
- Considers human rights violations and risks of illegality from the outset for all countries, consistently with Article 29(4)(c) and (d), including for countries with low deforestation or forest degradation rates;
- Does not use UN sanctions as the main or sole criteria to determine whether a country or parts thereof are high risk;
- Considers forest degradation alongside deforestation, which is consistent with the text of the regulation;
- Considers production trends for all commodities covered by the EUDR;
- Does not unduly characterise EU-Mercosur or other trade agreements as neutralising measurable risks of deforestation, illegality, and rights violations
Read the full letter here.
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