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European forest owners take note of the decision of the Council to adopt the NRL. They do so with some concerns and now stand ready to take an active part in the national and regional level implementation, as they are the key partners in its deployment.

On 16 May 2024, CEPF participated in the PEFC Forest Forum 2024 which gathered nearly 200 participants, over 40 internal & external speakers and it focused on forest management amid the climate crisis. During the session "Regulations and Beyond: Delivering Impact on the Ground", CEPF Vice President, Luc Bouvarel, discussed the implications of recent European Commission legislation on forest management.

Small4Good is an EU-funded Horizon Europe project, running from January 2024 to December 2027 which aims to equip small forest owners with digital and AI tools to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services. The goal of Small4Good is to understand the motivations of small forest owners and to help them creating business and management models tailored to local conditions.

European forest owners welcome the Commission’s initiative to evaluate the LULUCF Regulation. The future LULUCF needs to steer EU climate policy where meaningful climate change mitigation is a driver and enabler of both the rural economy as well as a circular and forest-based bioeconomy.

SUPERB Practical Knowledge questionnaire on restoration and biodiversity-friendly forest management practices is still open for contributions. The questionnaire represents a great opportunity for restoration initiatives to be heard and seen and to learn about the success and failures from similar initiatives.

The European Parliament re-elected Ursula von der Leyen as Commission President for the upcoming political mandate by 401 votes in support. The re-elected President guided MEPs through her policy guidelines in her candidacy speech, addressing wide range of policy asks from the political spectrum.

With the primary goal of enhancing research and innovation funding and governance within the forestry sector, EUFORE aims to establish a sustainable, transnational, co-creative environment for defining, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive research and innovation (R&I) agenda. EUFORE is actively conducting three important surveys to gather insights from stakeholders within the forestry sector.

Since the publication of the Commission's proposal of the EU Deforestation and Forest Degradation Regulation (EUDR) on 17 November 2021, primary producers have supported the objective of the EUDR. However, it has become obvious that key parts of the final text that remained unclear are to be interpreted so strictly that their implementation will lead to a high level of administrative burden and costs. It will therefore not be possible to implement the EUDR in practice.

Representatives of the European forest and forest-based sector, the undersigned
organisations would like to share their views ahead the 9th Ministerial Conference on the
Protection of Forests in Europe (Bonn Conference).

The European Commission published on 02 October a proposal for a 12-month extension for the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Responding to feedback from international partners and European stakeholders, the proposed extension would delay the regulation’s application to December 2025 for large companies and June 2026 for micro- and small enterprises.

European primary producers and various industries welcome the European Commission’s proposal to extend the implementation period of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by an additional 12 months. While we fully support the regulation’s objective to combat global deforestation, it is crucial to ensure that it is implemented under the right conditions to be effective and feasible.