Implementing the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)

Organised by

• Department of Economics
• Department of History
• Department of Law
• Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
• Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
• Department of Political and Social Sciences
• Florence School of Transnational Governance
• Central Coordination Unit
• Environmental Challenges and Climate Change Governance

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), adopted in May 2023, is an ambitious and innovative measure aimed at greening the Union’s supply chains and mitigating climate change beyond its borders. The Regulation prohibits operators from placing a series of major agricultural commodities on the EU market if they have been produced on recently deforested land and imposes mandatory due diligence obligations on firms trading such products in Europe.

The workshop will bring together academic researchers and policy practitioners (including civil society) from within and beyond the EU to discuss the latest developments in the implementation of the EUDR, the Regulation’s potential impacts on different stakeholders, and its reception by producer countries. The first day of the workshop will concentrate on current policy developments, while the second day will address the legitimacy and effectiveness of EU action as a transnational environmental regulator from a broader theoretical and normative perspective.

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• Workshop programme