Month: December 2024
The EU’s General Product Safety Regulation: New Accident Reporting Obligations
In the third in a series of blogs on the General Product Safety Regulation, the Cooley products team unpacks the new accident reporting obligations being introduced across the European Economic Area (EEA) – made up of European Union Member States, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway – and Northern Ireland.
Rod Freeman , Claire Temple , Jamie Humphreys , Tracey Bischofberger
One-Year Delay to EU’s Anti-Deforestation Law Confirmed
On 18 December 2024, the Council of the EU formally adopted the regulation delaying the application of the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by 12 months. This follows the European Parliament’s formal adoption of the amending regulation on 17 December 2024. Now that the final legislative hurdles have been overcome, the amending regulation must be signed and published in the Official Journal of the European Union so that it can become law before the end of the year. This delay means that businesses now have until 30 December 2025 to ensure they have procedures in place to comply with the EUDR.
One-Year Delay to EU’s Anti-Deforestation Law Close to Approval
On 3 December 2024, provisional agreement was reached on the proposal to delay the application of the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by 12 months. According to the provisional agreement, the targeted amendment will not affect the substance of the existing legislation as it was originally agreed. The EUDR only allows in-scope products and commodities that are ‘deforestation-free’ to be placed or made available on the EU market and/or exported from the EU. This includes certain products made from cattle, wood, cocoa, soy, palm oil, coffee and rubber.
EU’s General Product Safety Regulation: An Expanded Concept of Safety
In the second in a series of blogs on the European Union’s new General Product Safety Regulation, the Cooley products team takes a look at the expanded concept of safety under the new rules and why this matters.