📢 Our new Advocacy Focus is out! Read now all relevant updates on key EU initiatives, ongoing policy debates, sector trends, and the most relevant events and milestones for the #Woodworking industries. In this issue, we highlight: ✅ #EUDR: Simplification package ✅ Market analysis: Europe’s #Forestry paradox ✅ Construction: Call [...]

On 12 May, the European Commission launched the public consultation on the “stress test” of the Birds and Habitats Directives. The consultation will remain open from 12 May until 4 August and will feed into the ongoing assessment process. The objective of the “stress test”, whose results are expected by [...]

Forest Tracks: Country-Level Market Insights 2025/2026 is a compilation of national reports submitted by countries to the eighty-third session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry. The document provides a comprehensive overview of forest and forest product-related policies and market trends in Armenia, Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, [...]

The Forest Bioeconomy Investment Accelerator 2026, a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group, the European Forest Institute and the Bioregions Facility, has launched its call for projects. Approximately 10 forest and bioeconomy projects will be selected to participate in a closed-door dialogue with EIB Group experts and investment [...]

The Commission has published its simplification package for the EU Deforestation Regulation. Please see the Commission press release here. The package delivers on the commitment made to the European Parliament and the Council under the simplification review clause and includes the following elements: Updated FAQs and Guidance documents; A draft [...]

From agriculture, livestock, forest, forest-based industries and feed to vegetable oil and protein meal, many sectors call on EU institutions and Member States to take the necessary time to address their persistent concerns over the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). While well-intentioned, the EUDR risks undermining the competitiveness, resilience and autonomy [...]

The EU Commission has prepared an updated version of the EUDR supply chain infographic that you can download at following link: EUDR supply chain infographics (3rd edition) - Publications Office of the EU This revised version updates the original document, reflecting the amendments agreed by the co-legislators in December 2025 [...]

On 31 March, the EU Commission published the “Guidance on the protection of bird species under the Birds Directive” clarifying the implementation of Articles 5 and 9 of the Birds Directive. The document is available here: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/publications/guidance-protection-bird-species-under-birds-directive_en The guidelines document clarifies in particular the notion of “deliberate character”, which no [...]