The Member States’ ambassadors to the EU (Coreper), meeting in Brussels on Wednesday 21 December in the final days of the Czech Presidency of the EU Council, endorsed the provisional agreement reached on 6 December between the European Parliament and the EU Council on the regulation to halt the EU’s contribution to global deforestation.
Under the future regulation, only products that can be shown not to have contributed to forest degradation or deforestation anywhere in the world can...