17/01/2023 (Agence Europe) – On the evening of Monday 16 January, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee validated the political agreement reached on 6 December 2022 between the European Parliament and the EU Council on the regulation to reduce the EU’s contribution to global deforestation (see EUROPE B13078A9). Under the text, only products that can be proven not to have contributed to global forest degradation or deforestation can be sold in the EU or exported from the...