Forestry
The Council of the EU, which is made up of member state ministers, is to seek a "targeted revision" of the controversial EUDR.
Environment
The ICMSA has welcomed the proposed delay to the EUDR but nonetheless called for it to be substantially changed.
The EU Deforestation Regulation is set to be delayed again due to what the European Commission said was a lack of capacity in its IT systems.
Organisations representing farmers and forestry stakeholders have issued a statement calling for a simplification package for the EUDR.
Agri-Business
Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has said that efforts to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must benefit farmers.
The European Commission has published the first benchmarking list, which classifies countries according to their risk of deforestation.
The ICMSA has said that the EU Deforestation Regulation "makes a mockery" out of the EU's efforts to simplify regulations for farms.
The European Commission has provided "further simplifications" to facilitate the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
The European Parliament has given its final sign-off to the proposed delay to the application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
Companies will have one more year to adapt to new EU deforestation rules, which ban the sale of products sourced from deforested land.
The EU Parliament has voted to amend and postpone the EU Deforestation Regulation which is due to come into force at the end of this year.
Beef
An Irish MEP has said that the proposed delay to the EUDR will be "good news" for the Irish beef sector if ratified.
Agri Politics
The new EU Deforestation Regulation 'should' use existing data sources for monitoring, according to chair of the livestock committee for ICMSA
