Ukraine has extended export restrictions on unprocessed timber and fuelwood until the end of 2026, reinforcing a strategic push toward domestic value-added processing and energy security for rural regions. The decision was adopted at the Cabinet’s final meeting of the year and sets a licensing regime with zero quotas, effectively [...]

Source: European Commission The EU is setting a legally binding climate target of 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2040. The Commission welcomes last night's provisional political agreement between the European Parliament and EU Member States on this headline target and the amendment of the EU Climate Law. [...]

Source: European Commission On 10th December, the European Commission presented a package of measures to simplify environmental legislation in the areas of industrial emissions, circular economy, environmental assessments and geospatial data. The changes will contribute to reducing the administrative burden for businesses, while keeping the EU's ambitious objectives to protect the [...]

The open public consultation for the future European Integrated Framework for Climate Resilience was published on the 1st of December, and it is open for 12 weeks, until 23 February at noon – Open Public Consultation. This initiative will set out an integrated framework to support EU countries in ensuring [...]

The negotiators from both institutions needed less than an hour on 4 December to harmonise their positions on the revision of this regulation. Their stances on the text were very similar: postponement of the application of the regulation by one year (to 30 December 2026), administrative simplifications for small operators [...]

27 Nov 2025 · Source: European Commission Today, the Commission adopted a new Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy, charting a way forward to build a clean, competitive and resilient European economy. By using renewable biological resources from land and sea and providing alternatives to critical raw [...]

As a result of President Trump's Proclamation which imposes tariffs on various wood products from across the world (ADJUSTING IMPORTS OF TIMBER, LUMBER, AND THEIR DERIVATIVE PRODUCTS INTO THE UNITED STATES), tariffs on imports of sawn softwood (and softwood logs) from the EU (and some other countries) will be set [...]

The EU Commission aims to gather insights on the challenges and effective solutions needed to scale up and further develop the New European Bauhaus (NEB). The main goal is to bring about concrete improvements in neighbourhoods and communities by strengthening the initiative’s transformative impact. Click here for more information Feedback period: [...]