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EU Deforestation Regulation

Decisions: 7 on 7 sitting days
Outcomes: 7 adopted · 0 rejected
Period: 23 Oct 2024 – 17 Dec 2025
Found by: A model, not checked by hand

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Kind: EU initiative
Status: Dormant (no decision for six months)
Last 90 days: 0 decisions
Roll-call votes: 5
By kind: New laws 6 · Objections 1

Kind: EU initiative
Status: Dormant (no decision for six months)
Last 90 days: 0 decisions
Roll-call votes: 5
By kind: New laws 6 · Objections 1

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EU rules requiring products sold in Europe to be deforestation-free, with a country risk benchmarking system.

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Decisions, 7

The latest decisions on this issue, newest first. No CSV for issues yet: the registers cannot filter by issue.

**Effect**: what the decision did. **Final vote**: for–against–abstained, and how it was recorded.
Date	Decision	Kind	Effect	Final vote
17 Dec 2025	Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders (No. 4, 17 Dec 2025)	New laws	Passed	405 for, 242 against, 8 abstained by roll call
26 Nov 2025	Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders (No. 1, 26 Nov 2025)	New laws	Passed	402 for, 250 against, 8 abstained by roll call
13 Nov 2025	Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders (No. 11, 13 Nov 2025)	New laws	Passed	show of hands — no count
9 Jul 2025	Deforestation Regulation - list of countries presenting a low or high risk Objection under Rule 115(2) and (3) · implementing measure	Objections	Objection passed	373 for, 289 against, 26 abstained by roll call
17 Dec 2024	Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application (No. 1, 17 Dec 2024)	New laws	Passed	546 for, 97 against, 7 abstained by roll call
14 Nov 2024	Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application (No. 1, 14 Nov 2024)	New laws	Passed	371 for, 240 against, 30 abstained by roll call
23 Oct 2024	Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application (No. 2, 23 Oct 2024)	New laws	Urgent procedure agreed	show of hands — no count

Dossiers, 1

The dossiers these decisions belong to, the one voted on most recently first.

**Decisions**: decisions on the dossier counted here. **Latest decision**: its date and outcome.
Dossier	Decisions	Latest decision
Deforestation Regulation - list of countries presenting a low or high risk 2025-2739	Decisions1	9 Jul 2025 · Adopted

Group lines

How each group voted on the final votes of this issue: its clear line or divided.

The last 5 final roll-call votes. Each group’s line on the final votes, with members counted in the group they sat in on the day; a **clear line** = at least two thirds of the group’s votes with at least 10 members voting (method). **For / Against / Abstained**: its clear line. **Divided**: no clear line. **With the outcome**: votes where its majority line matched the result. **Votes**: finals the group voted on.
Group	For	Against	Abstained	Divided	With the outcome	Votes
The Left	For0	Against5	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome0	of5
Greens	For0	Against5	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome0	of5
S&D	For1	Against4	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome1	of5
Renew	For1	Against1	Abst.0	Divided3	With outcome3	of5
EPP	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5
ECR	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5
Patriots	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5
ESN	For5	Against0	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome5	of5

Connections

Topics and issues that come up together with this one, and its main dossiers.

Topics that come up with it

Topic Agriculture, food & fisheries Farm policy, food safety, animal welfare, fisheries.
Topic Climate & environment Emissions targets, carbon pricing, nature, pollution and waste.
Topic Economy & single market Competitiveness, industry, single market rules, finance, taxation.

Running issues

Issue 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals Running issue · EU initiative 17 Sept 2026

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/issues/eu-deforestation-regulation
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2025). “EU Deforestation Regulation”. Running issue, 17 December 2025. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/issues/eu-deforestation-regulation (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).

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@misc{epw-issue-eu-deforestation-regulation,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{EU Deforestation Regulation}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-12-17},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/issues/eu-deforestation-regulation}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/issues/eu-deforestation-regulation},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Running issue. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}