Policy and standards briefing by ECOS Purpose of this briefing This briefing presents an overview of some of the recent policy and standards developments and their direct implications for stakeholders and experts of the construction sector and timber industry. The brief also empowers stakeholders to anticipate and prepare for the [...]

On the 18 December 2023,  the Pilot Testing of the Deforestation Information System started and will run till the end of January. 100 stakeholders will participate in this testing phase. This includes stakeholders across the relevant commodities, operators of different sizes (including SMEs and non-SMEs) and a geographical balance. The [...]

The new EU law on deforestation is an important turning point in the global fight against deforestation. It will start to apply on 30 December 2024. Many countries around the world have made significant efforts over the past decade to reduce deforestation, for example by introducing moratoria or measures to [...]

DG Trade has today expanded the scope of its online Trade Assistant for Services and Investment to cover one hundred services sectors across four of the EU’s key trading partners: Canada, Japan, Switzerland, and the UK. EU businesses now have access to an even more comprehensive database of information – [...]

EOS warmly welcomes the announcement that was made at the COP 28, calling for an increased use of timber in construction as a vital decarbonisation tool. This announcement was made at a COP Presidency event under the auspices of the Forests and Climate Leaders Partnership (FCLP) which is co-chaired by [...]

Belgium assumes the rotating Presidency for the thirteenth time, at a moment when the European Union stands at a crossroads, dealing with the consequences of the Russian illegal aggression in Ukraine, the pandemic, the energy crisis, disinformation, extreme climate events, and a renewed conflict in the Middle East. The Belgian [...]

Source: European Commission The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached today between the European Parliament and the Council to reduce the emissions and energy use of buildings across the EU. The strengthened Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) will support the EU's efforts to decarbonise buildings across the whole Union. [...]

Source: European Commission The Commission is proposing a Forest Monitoring Law that will plug existing gaps in the information on European forests and create a comprehensive forest knowledge base, to allow Member States, forest owners and forest managers to improve their response to growing pressures on forests and strengthen forest [...]

Speech, 22 November 2023, Brussels - Source, European Commission Commissioner Sinkevičius Good afternoon everyone, thank you for your interest. We are here today on an important occasion for our forests. The Commission added another valuable element to consolidate the European Green Deal. We adopted a proposed Regulation on a Monitoring [...]

Source: 21 Nov 2023 · Source: Group of the European People's Party (EPP) “To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the EU must reduce greenhouse gas emissions and compensate for residual emissions that cannot be eliminated by increasing carbon absorption. In other words, it is no longer enough to reduce our [...]