Overview

• In July 2025, MEPs backed creation of a fourth “insignificant risk” category to ease due diligence for low-deforestation countries
• Parliament voted to eliminate the existing three-tier country risk classification amid concerns over its accuracy and fairness
• Lawmakers approved replacing per-shipment disclosures with a single annual deforestation risk statement to cut administrative burden by about 30%
• Commissioner Jessika Roswall’s team launched a stakeholder consultation on simplifying EUDR rules without lowering environmental safeguards
• Major corporations remain divided, with Mondelēz lobbying for further delay and Nestlé, Ferrero and Tony’s Chocolonely pressing for full, timely implementation