EUDR Delay? EU Commission Weighs Potential Postponement to 2026

On September 23, 2025, European Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall proposed a 1-year postponement for the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) due to apparent IT issues. Scroll below for the excerpts from Commissioner Roswall letter. If approved/finalized, this would mean a 2-year delay since the original date of December 31, 2024. This latest development follows the July 9th EU Parliament vote, rejecting the Country Benchmarking (Classification) System. The proposal will now go to the EU Parliament and EU Council -- both bodies must approve the proposed delay before it becomes law. MEPs will also debate the amendments, including the "zero-risk" exemption, streamlined reporting, enhanced data interoperability -- during the March, 2026 plenary. The Council is expected to vote during the April, 2026 meeting of ministers.

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Excerpts from Commissioner Roswall’s letter:

“Based on the available information, the Commission’s assessment is that this [new projections on the number of expected operations and interactions between economic operators and the IT system has led to a substantial upward reassessment of the projected load on the IT system] will very likely lead to the system slowing down to unacceptable levels or even to repeated and long-lasting disruptions, which would negatively impact companies and their possibilities to comply with the EUDR. Operators would be unable to register as economic operators, introduce their Due Diligence Statements, retrieve the necessary information from the IT system, or provide the necessary information for customs purposes where relevant. This would severely impact the achievement of the objectives of EUDR, but also potentially affect trade flows in the areas covered by the legislation.”

“Despite efforts to address the issues in time for the entry into application of the EUDR, it is not possible to have sufficient guarantees that the IT system will be able to sustain the level of the expected load.”