Designing an appropriate and inclusive benchmarking approach in the EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

This briefing sets out the reasons behind our organisations’ view that the benchmarking mechanism in the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products should integrate greater participation by producer country stakeholders. It provides an analysis of the ways in which the EU could address some of these concerns by strengthening cooperation and partnership within the scope of Article 27, in the context of the compromise to be agreed by representatives of the Parliament, the Council and the Commission during the upcoming trialogue negotiations.