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New CBAM documents released by European Commission

November 10, 2023 By Thijs van Luijt (Netherlands), Sylvain Guelton (UK), William-James Kettlewell (Belgium) and Nicole Looks (Netherlands) 6 Mins Read

Next to the CBAM implementing regulation adopted by the European Commission on 17 August 2023 regarding the reporting rules applicable during the transitional phase of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) (please find a previous alert by our team here), the European Commission released a set of new CBAM documents in October. These are in chronological order: In addition, note that the national authority designation process still is inconclusive for a number of Member States,…

European Parliament Adopts New Due Diligence Requirements to Tackle Deforestation and Forest Degradation

April 27, 2023 By Rachel MacLeod (UK), Graham Stuart (UK), Adeel Haque and William-James Kettlewell (Belgium) 4 Mins Read

On 19 April 2023, the European Parliament adopted the final text of a new EU Regulation aimed at tackling deforestation and forest degradation (the “Deforestation Regulation”) requiring companies to undertake due diligence into the source of a wide range of commodities, including cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm-oil, rubber, soya and wood, to ensure that they have not been obtained as a result of deforestation. Once in force, obligated will have 18 months to implement the new…