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C/2026/879

27.2.2026

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 as regards certain obligations of operators and traders

(COM(2025) 652 final – 2025/0329(COD))

(C/2026/879)

Referral

Council, 5.11.2025

European Parliament, 23.10.2025

Legal basis

Articles 192(1) and 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Section responsible

Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment

Adopted at plenary session

3.12.2025

Plenary session No

601

Outcome of vote

(for/against/abstentions)

207/2/8

Since the Committee has already set out its views on the content of the proposal in question in its opinions EESC-2024-01183-00-00-AC-TRA, adopted on 19 September 2024  (1), and EESC-2021-05690-00-00-AC-TRA, adopted on 23 February 2022  (2), it has decided not to draw up a new opinion on the subject, but to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned documents.

Brussels, 3 December 2025.

The President

of the European Economic and Social Committee

Séamus BOLAND


(1)  Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee – Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest – impact on climate change and the global environment; consequences for companies, workers and population (own-initiative opinion) ( OJ C, C/2024/6882, 28.11.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6882/oj).

(2)  Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 (COM(2021) 706 final – 2021/0366(COD)) (OJ C 275, 18.7.2022, p. 88).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/879/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)