Council of the European Union gives approval of EUDR

With 552 votes in favour, 44 against, and 43 abstentions, the members of the European Parliament adopted the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) in Strasbourg on 19 April 2023. To enable to the regulation to come into force as planned, the member states in the EU Council still have to give their...

Romanian police conducted searches and controls on businesses in the forestry and timber industry within the scope of a large-scale operation on 28 September 2022. The searches focused on 146 storage yards and business premises of around 30 to 40 companies in the Romanian region of Suceava and neighbouring areas as...

Another two forest directorates of the Polish state forest business unit Lasy Panstwowe, RDLP Białystok and RDLP Szczecin handed back their FSC certificates at the end of July and August, respectively. RDLP Białystok’s termination of the certificate for forest management and for the chain-of-custody, which was only...