Ecological transition, forests and agro-industrial supply chains

The European Commission has recently adopted a regulation that aims to reduce the effects of the so-called “embodied deforestation”; that is, that caused mainly by the import of primary goods such as soy, palm oil, beef, cocoa, coffee and wood.
With a view to safeguarding the ecological value of forest ecosystems in the countries that produce these raw materials (mainly in the tropical area), the European Union has provided for enhanced due diligence measures in Regulation (EU) 2024/3234, which came into force on 29 June 2023, that will allow zero-deforestation products to be placed on the market.

Member States, with specific decrees, will have to define the methods and tools that companies subject to the new obligations will have to apply starting from December 2025. In this framework, the various agro-industrial sectors will have to develop, in a short time, new procedures and traceability systems that are able, on the one hand, to respond to the objectives indicated by the regulation and, on the other, to avoid an increase in bureaucratic burdens, given that these are very long supply chains, with consequent loss of competitiveness along the distribution chains.

In this direction, it is necessary to provide an open space for dialogue in which information can be networked and the most critical aspects relating to the implementation of the new procedures can be shared, to ensure the right balance between the right objectives of environmental protection and climate mitigation and those of supplying primary goods from strategic supply chains for Made in Italy.

Session Chairs

Silvia Piconcelli, Confagricoltura
Roberta Papili, Confagricoltura

Program

10.15 Greetings
Enrico Allasia, Confagricoltura

10.30 Introduction
Marco Marchetti, Fondazione Alberitalia

10.45 New obligations about the Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation and forest degradation (EUDR)
Representative of DG ENVI or JRC, European Commission (TBD)

11.00 Emilio Gatto, Difor

11.15 The system of controls
Representative of ICQRF

11.30 Business systems management models in view of EUDR
Alessandra Stefani, National cluster Forestry wood
Carlo Piemonte, National cluster Forestry wood

11.45 Case studies and Call for paper

12.15 Round table
How to reach the new requirements? the supply chains compared
(representatives of leather, rubber, meat, soy supply chains)

13.00 Conclusions
Davide Matteo Pettenella, University of Padua