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While CEPF supports the general principle of increasing resilience of European forests, the real added value of this proposal and the actual means it offers for resilient of EU forest are tenuous. The question of a need of EU action and real added value of this proposal remains.

The European Commission Joint Research Center’s (JRC) latest report “Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2022” was published on 22 November 2023. It highlights 2022 as the second-worst fire season in recent history.

While European forest owners fully support the general principle of increasing resilience of European forests, we have substantial doubts whether the proposed provisions of of the European Commission's proposal might be the right tool for achieving it.

The European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) report “Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2021” was published on 31 October 2022. The report finds that 2021 fire season was the worst, but notes that the on-going fire season 2022 is already breaking this record.

On 29 September 2022, USSE held a conference in Bordeaux on "Southern European forests facing climate change and market challenges". CEPF Secretary General Fanny-Pomme Langue participated to a round table on conserving forests and their biodiversity.

European forest owners express their full solidarity with all people affected by the ongoing terrible droughts and wildfires raging across Europe.