On the vote on the Deforestation Regulation: ‘The long-awaited clarity on implementation is overdue.’
Date
Wed, 11/26/2025
Sections
Climate & Environment
Frankfurt/Brussels, 26 November 2025 – Commenting on the vote on the Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in the European Parliament, VDMA Executive Director Thilo Brodtmann said:
‘The European Parliament has done the right thing in further reducing the bureaucracy surrounding the Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Now it's all about the trilogue negotiations. An end to the nail-biting wait for practical implementation of the regulation is long overdue.’
‘In order to finally give our companies planning security, the one-year postponement of the EUDR and the relief measures proposed by the Commission must be negotiated and decided upon quickly. Product compliance should be verified only once – by the initial market entrant. In addition, individual raw materials such as rubber or wood and the products concerned should be considered in a more differentiated manner. Some products should be completely exempted, while for others the regulation should only apply above certain minimum thresholds.’
‘The start of the year should then be used to fundamentally review and further streamline the EUDR. The VDMA will contribute constructive proposals to the upcoming negotiations.’
VDMA represents 3600 German and European mechanical and plant engineering companies. The industry stands for innovation, export orientation and SMEs. The companies employ around 3 million people in the EU-27, more than 1.2 million of them in Germany alone. This makes mechanical and plant engineering the largest employer among the capital goods industries, both in the EU-27 and in Germany. In the European Union, it represents a turnover volume of an estimated 870 billion euros.
Around 80 percent of the machinery sold in the EU comes from a manufacturing plant in the domestic market.