To fight climate change and biodiversity loss globally, Environment MEPs want only deforestation-free products to be allowed on the EU market. The Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee today adopted its position with 60 votes to 2 and 13 abstentions on the Commission proposal for a regulation on deforestation-free products to halt EU-driven global deforestation.

Highlights:
- EU consumption represents around 10% of global deforestation
- MEPs want the rules to also cover pigmeat, sheep and goats, poultry, maize, rubber, charcoal and printed paper products
- Human rights and the rights of indigenous people also to be respected
- An area larger than the EU was lost to deforestation between 1990 and 2020