{"id":51869,"date":"2026-10-20T19:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/?p=51869"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:12:34","slug":"eu-regulation-on-deforestation-free-products-reference-document-for-cocoa-producers-and-importers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/eu-regulation-on-deforestation-free-products-reference-document-for-cocoa-producers-and-importers\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products: Reference Document for Cocoa Producers and Importers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite massive attention on Due Diligence regulations and many organisations publishing policy position papers, there is a lack of operational guidance on what exactly cocoa supply chain companies will need to meet regulatory requirements. Similarly, there is a lack of guidance on (or support for) how farmers and their organisations to meet such requirements and limited analysis of the impact of those new regulations on farmers and their market access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In this reference document, Proforest synthesises existing best practices and tools for conducting supply chain Deforestation Due Diligence in the cocoa sector and identifies key unanswered questions for regulators and companies. Throughout the document, potential negative impacts of Deforestation Due Diligence regulations are identified, and best practices to avoid them are discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This guidance does not focus on a specific Deforestation Due Diligence regulation but mostly contains references to the EU DDD proposed regulation, as it is the most developed and complete example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite massive attention on Due Diligence regulations and many organisations publishing policy position papers, there is a lack of operational guidance on what exactly cocoa supply chain companies will need to meet regulatory requirements. Similarly, there is a lack of guidance on (or support for) how farmers and their organisations to meet such requirements and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":13313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,307,61,1911,49,528,496],"class_list":["post-51869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library","tag-cocoa","tag-compliance-tool","tag-due-diligence","tag-guidance","tag-legality","tag-proforest","tag-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51869"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51894,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51869\/revisions\/51894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodeforestationhub.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}