Individual share of EU-embodied deforestation

Contrary to what the Parliament had requested, the initial list of commodities does not include maize and rubber. According to the Commission IA, an efficiency analysis, comparing the hectares of deforestation linked to EU consumption with the average value of EU imports for eight commodities, preselected based on literature review, showed that maize and rubber account for the smallest fraction of EU- embodied deforestation (see Figure 1), while their trade volumes are very large. The Commission thus concluded that bringing these two commodities within the scope of the proposal would have resulted in significant burdens, with limited returns in terms of curbing EU-driven deforestation.