EU-EAC MARKUP II - Second online workshop on EUDR
This video is part of the International Trade Centre (ITC) series of webinars under MARKUP II to discuss EU Green Deal regulations and the Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR), emphasizing the importance of mitigating deforestation in agricultural commodity production. The workshop aims to shed light on the main components of EUDR, its origin and context of EU Green Deal, discuss the main- elements of EUDR implementation and the core concepts, among which “Benchmarking”, “Due Diligence Obligations”, “Geolocation of all plots of land”.
Participants to the workshop included policymakers, private sector and experts and identify ways to achieve deforestation-free global value chains and meet the requirements of EU market. It also seeks to provide a platform for stakeholders to collaborate and explore opportunities to build more sustainable and resilient global value chains, and across all topics, learn from lessons learned, best practices and challenges along the way to creating more sustainable land use and deforestation-free supply chains.