The Brazilian government reacted with “concern” on Friday (23), after the European Commission put Brazil on the list of countries with “average risk” for deforestation.
“The Brazilian government reiterates its critical position on the European anti -demature law. Legislation, with an expected entry on December 30, 2025, is a unilateral and discriminatory measure and disregards national and multilateral efforts to preserve forest areas and confront the climate change,” says Itamaraty note.
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Although the measure “causes significant and disproportionate burden on countries that practice tropical agriculture responsibly and sustainably as Brazil, with even greater impacts for lower -scale producers.”
The government has said it will analyze the classification list and will continue to insist on dialogue and cooperation “to seek to reduce the negative consequences of the implementation of the anti -dismay law and to reduce its current and future impact for Brazilian producers and exporters.”
European Commission Classification
The European Commission published a list on Thursday (22), with the classification of countries that pose a higher and lower risk to feed deforestation. Belarus, Myanmar, North Korea and Russia were listed as the nations that have “high risk.” As a result, they will face more rigorous controls under the European Union Antidemation Law (EU).
Already Brazil and Indonesia, which historically had some of the highest deforestation rates in the world, were placed on the “average risk” list and will receive lighter inspections on exported products to Europe.
The law, pioneer in the world, will impose “prior diligence” requirements on companies that market products such as soy, beef, palm oil, wood, cocoa, coffee and chocolate for the EU market. The measure has been challenged by Brazil and Indonesia, which consider the measure costly.
A fundamental difference between groups is that EU countries will be required to perform compliance checks by covering 9% of companies exporting from high -risk countries, 3% from average -risk countries and 1% of low -risk countries.
The United States were among the countries labeled as “low risk”, which means that their companies still need to collect information about their supply chains, but do not need to evaluate and address the risk of deforestation.
*With information from Reuters
This content was originally published in “Discriminatory”: Brazil reacts after Europe’s environmental classification on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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