BRUSSELS - Approved last April, the EU's deforestation regulation was hailed by MEPs as a landmark in the bloc's push towards sustainable business practices and slashing carbon emissions.
"European consumers can now rest assured that they will no longer be unwittingly complicit in deforestation," said the European Parliament's negotiator on the law, former centre-right Luxembourgish MEP Christophe Hansen.
There are concerns that smallholder farmers will be the unintended victims of a new EU law on deforestation.
