MEP Delara Burkhardt (S&D, Germany), author of a legislative, own-initiative report on the future EU legal framework to halt global deforestation for which the EU is responsible, presented her draft report to Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI) on Thursday 2 July.
She calls on the European Commission to propose a legal framework for mandatory due diligence along supply chains for forest products and products posing a risk to ecosystems that are placed on the EU market, including...