THE European parliament has voted in favour of new regulations forcing companies aimed at preventing from importing products linked to deforestation – with beef on the list.
While months of debate was ended by the vote, the regulation will need to provide more detail to determine how the Australian beef industry will be impacted. The law was proposed late last year after the COP26 summit in Glasgow had a major focus on deforestation.
The deforestation regulations follow moves from The Netherlands and Ireland to make potentially herd reducing environmental legislation.
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