InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Senior Campaigner of Kaoem Telapak, Denny Bhatara thought, EUDR is the policy that would bond the operators and traders in EU. That is why the two parties should publish statement about due diligence to confirm that their import-export goods in and to EU would be legal and free from deforestation or forest degradation. Theirs should be traceable until the plot where the commodities were produced.

He said EUDR implementation would indirectly deliver impacts for the smallholders that supplied materials in the supply chain to EU. It would cover two aspects, the first is traceability that should be free from reforestation and legality (obedience to regulation) from the original country.

The operators and traders in EU should also make/publish due diligence to conform that the imported product origin, in this case, crude palm oil and palm kernel oil (CPO and PKO) and the derivative products should be legal and had not contributed to deforestation and forest degradation.

The check of the origin should cover, such as, the first, how the products were produced by publishing documents of the supply chain. This part would deliver impacts in the mill unit. The second, there should be documents where the products are located and produced. The documents should inform geolocation (for the areas more than four hectares, there should be polygon form).

“Besides, the legality and traceability aspects to the regulation from the original countries that regulate how some products were produced, should be checked by the operators and traders in EU, for instance, the business permit (cultivation documents), and others,” Denny recently said to InfoSAWIT. (T2)

for more, please read Majalah InfoSAWIT, June 2024