The Commission welcomes the provisional political agreement just reached between the European Parliament and the Council on an EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains. Once adopted and applied, the new law will ensure that a set of key goods placed on the EU market will no longer contribute to deforestation and forest degradation in the EU and elsewhere in the world. (Source: European Commission) Additional information Deal on new law to ensure products causing deforestation are not sold in the EU. (Source: European Parliament)