At the EU ‘Agriculture’ Council meeting in Brussels on Tuesday 26 March, Austria, supported by several other countries (France, Finland, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, etc.), called for a targeted revision of the regulation on tackling deforestation.
“The agreed overall objective of tackling deforestation in third countries must not be to the detriment of the European economy, in particular the European agriculture and forestry sector”, says Austria in a document (see...