04 Dec, 2024 EU Deforestation Regulation: Parliament and Council agree one-year delay By Sara Feijao On 3 December 2024, the European Parliament and Council reached a political agreement on a proposal to delay the implementation of the EU...
14 Nov, 2024 EU Deforestation Regulation: European Parliament votes on amendments including one-year delay By Sara Feijao European Parliament vote On 14 November 2024, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Commission's proposal to delay application...
03 Oct, 2024 EU Deforestation Regulation: Commission publishes guidance and proposes 12-month delay to application date By Sara Feijao Guillaume Croisant James Marlow On 2 October 2024, the European Commission announced (see EU press release) that it has published: a legislative proposal to delay the...
11 Sep, 2023 Is Dutch climate policy controversial? By Bram Bulter Gijs Smit The Dutch government coalition collapsed on Friday 8 July 2023, just before the Dutch Parliament summer recess. With the summer break...
21 Jun, 2023 Deforestation Regulation: EU imposes new due diligence duties on operators and traders By Guillaume Croisant Bruno Garcia Da Silva Sara Feijao The EU Deforestation Regulation (also known as EUDR) was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 9 June 2023 and comes into force...
06 Jun, 2023 The Ostend Declaration from a Dutch perspective By Bram Bulter Introduction The Energy ministers of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway and the United...
17 Feb, 2023 The Netherlands: A Dutch initiative for a value chain due diligence By Gijs Smit Bas van Niekerk Introduction In December of last year, the Council of the EU finalised its position on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive...
03 Feb, 2023 Netherlands: greenwashing in the spotlight of Dutch authorities By Gijs Smit Bas van Niekerk Introduction The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (Autoriteit Consument en Markt) (“ACM”) earlier announced that “energy &...