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These commitments were part of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, and it is understood that the EU fears the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill would affect the level playing field, and risk the proposal to link electricity markets tabled at the 19 May UK-EU Reset agreement.

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the urgent need for FRC regulations in the UK, and opportunities for alignment with the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR). With plans to simplify the EUDR announced this week, this session is a timely opportunity to dig into the detail.

Chaired by IEEP UK Chair Malini Mehra, we'll be hearing from Pippa Heylings MP, Nicola Brennan (WWF-UK), Nora Hiller (IEEP AISBL), Joe James (Sainsbury's) and Ed Worsdell (IEEP UK).

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With the EUDR facing delays and ongoing debate over its future, this session comes at a crucial moment for both UK and EU action on forest protection.

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In this session, we will look at the UK’s forthcoming Forest Risk Commodities (FRC) legislation – which will shape how companies tackle deforestation in their supply chains – and examine the opportunity for alignment with the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR).

Where the EU has in most areas of environmental law gone further and faster in the last five years, the UK Parliament could do well to at least look at and understand new EU environmental legislation, if not recommend following suit.
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More coverage in today’s Guardian following up on the findings of the report, as MPs Stella Creasey and Richard Tice call for a new Parliamentary committee to be set up to scrutinise where this divergence is happening.

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IEEP UK has developed a new interactive online tool for exploring the report’s findings. To access this and the full PDF report, please follow the link below 👇
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The report also highlights that the UK hasn't significantly regressed from 2020 levels of env protection, alongside notable egs of progressive divergence, incl UK & Scot Govts’ decision to close sandeel fisheries – praised as a strong use of post-Brexit policy autonomy to protect biodiversity.

The report points to a widening gap in ambition and action, with the UK falling behind the EU in several critical policy areas – often ‘diverging by default’ as the EU makes ambitious updates to what was once a ‘Common Rulebook’ shared by both parties.

Our assessment looks at a wide variety of legislation in the EU and across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and for the first time rates the level of divergence in environmental policy between the EU and the four UK nations.

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Much could, and should, change with the Planning Bill before it is passed. And we would be interested in seeing the EUs response to its ramifications, for all the reasons the UKICE article covers.