The procedure for simplifying and postponing the European regulation on deforestation (EUDR) has been successfully concluded.

European institutions have reached an agreement on the text of the Regulation: after the European Parliament's approval, the Council of the EU also gave the final green light and so the revised text was published in the EU Official Journal and entered into force at the end of 2025.

FederlegnoArredo is satisfied with the result achieved: the new text in fact incorporates the key points for which the Federation has advocated in recent months, while at the same time ensuring full protection of environmental objectives.

Changes made to the EUDR Regulation

The aim of the new text is to simplify the implementation of the existing rules and postpone their application to allow operators, traders and authorities to prepare adequately.

Let's look in detail at the changes made.

Under the agreement, the application of the EUDR is postponed to December 30, 2026 for large and medium-sized companies, and to June 30, 2027 for micro and small enterprises (with the exception of products already included in EUTR for which the postponement remains set at December 2026). 

The responsibility for due diligence will rest exclusively with the operators who first place the product on the market.

Only the first downstream operator will need to retain the reference number of the initial declaration, without an obligation to transmit it along the supply chain.

The European Commission, for its part, has been tasked by both co-legislators to carry out a review of the simplification and to present a report by April 30, 2026. 

More implementable measures

The president of FederlegnoArredo, Claudio Feltrin, commented: “This brings to a close a complex process that saw the concrete and constant commitment of FederlegnoArredo, together with other stakeholders, leading to an important result: finally more implementable measures.” “It is confirmation of the indispensable strategic representative role played by the Federation,” added Feltrin, “which has been able to speak up for the concrete needs of companies across the entire wood-furniture supply chain. An intense and continuous effort has been carried out, based on dialogue and ongoing engagement with the European and Italian institutions involved.”

Thanking the European associations CEI BOIS and EFIC for their constructive contribution, Feltrin hopes to continue the work in close collaboration with the institutions so that the path towards sustainability is increasingly shared.