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28ᵗʰ Edition  04-07 November 2025  Rimini Expo Centre, Italy
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"Ecological transition, forests and agro-industrial supply chains"

Agorà Augusto – Bioeconomy Area D1 pav.

The European Commission has recently adopted a regulation aimed at reducing the effects of so-called "embedded deforestation"; that is, deforestation caused mainly by the import of primary goods such as soy, palm oil, beef, cocoa, coffee and wood. Therefore, with a view to safeguarding the ecological value of forest ecosystems in the countries producing these raw materials (predominantly in the tropical area), the European Union has provided for enhanced due diligence measures in Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, which entered into force on 29 June 2023, that will allow zero-deforestation products to be placed on the market. Member States will have to define through specific decrees the methods and tools that companies subject to the new requirements will have to apply as early as December 2025. Within this framework, the various agro-industrial sectors will have to develop, in a short time, new procedures and traceability systems that are able, on the one hand, to respond to the objectives indicated by the regulation and, on the other, to avoid an increase in bureaucratic burdens, given that these are very long supply chains, with a consequent loss of competitiveness along the distribution chains. In this direction, it is necessary to provide an open space for dialogue in which information can be networked and the most critical aspects related to the implementation of the new procedures can be shared, to ensure the right balance between the right objectives of environmental protection and climate mitigation and those of supply of primary goods from strategic supply chains for Made in Italy.

Session Chairs

Silvia Piconcelli, Confagricoltura
Roberta Papili, Confagricoltura

Program

10.15 Welcome greetings
Enrico Allasia, Confagricoltura

10.30 Introduction
Marco Marchetti, Fondazione Alberitalia

10.45 New obligations related to Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation and forest degradation (EUDR)
Marco Onida (DG ENVI European Commission) or JRC (TBD)

11.00 Emilio Gatto, Difor

11.15 The control system
ICQRF

11.30 Management models of company systems in view of the EUDR Regulation
Alessandra Stefani, Cluster Italia Foresta Legno
Carlo Piemonte, Cluster Italia Foresta Legno

11.45 Case studies and Call for paper

12.15 Round table
How to achieve the new requirements? Supply chains in comparison

(representatives of leather, rubber, meat, soy supply chains)

13.00 Conclusions
Davide Matteo Pettenella, University of Padua

Organized by: Scientific Technical Committee Ecomondo & Confagricoltura, AlberItalia Foundation, Italy Forest Wood Cluster

7 November, 10:00 - 13:00

Language

Italian

Category

Agroecology and Bioenergy