Legislation repository
A curated repository of deforestation-related legislation per jurisdiction, maintained by 3BIO. Records flagged “needs review” are not for client use until verified by counsel.
🇪🇺 European Union
EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234
Prohibits placing on the EU market, making available, or exporting cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood products unless deforestation-free, legally produced, and covered by a due diligence statement.
🇪🇺 European Union
EU Timber Regulation (EUTR)
Regulation (EU) No 995/2010
Prohibited placing illegally harvested timber and timber products on the EU market and required operator due diligence. Repealed and replaced by the EUDR, subject to transitional provisions.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Environment Act 2021, Schedule 17 — forest risk commodities
Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), Schedule 17
Framework prohibiting larger UK businesses from using illegally produced forest risk commodities and requiring supply-chain due diligence. Operative details depend on secondary legislation.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
UK Timber Regulation (UKTR)
Retained Regulation (EU) No 995/2010, as amended for Great Britain
Post-Brexit continuation of the EU Timber Regulation in Great Britain: prohibits placing illegally harvested timber on the GB market and requires operator due diligence.
🇺🇸 United States
Lacey Act (plant provisions)
16 U.S.C. §§ 3371–3378, as amended by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
Prohibits trade in plants and plant products (including timber) taken, harvested or traded in violation of US state, federal, tribal or foreign law, and requires an import declaration for covered plant products.
🇺🇸 United States
FOREST Act (proposed)
Fostering Overseas Rule of Law and Environmentally Sound Trade Act (bill; reintroduced in successive Congresses)
Proposed legislation that would prohibit importing products made wholly or in part of covered commodities produced on illegally deforested land, with importer due-diligence and declaration requirements.
🇦🇺 Australia
Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012
Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012 (Cth), with the Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Strengthening Measures to Prevent Illegal Timber Trade) Act 2024
Prohibits importing or processing illegally logged timber and requires due diligence by importers of regulated timber products and processors of raw logs.
🇧🇷 Brazil
Forest Code (Código Florestal)
Lei nº 12.651/2012
Producer-country framework governing native vegetation protection: legal reserve and permanent preservation area requirements, the CAR rural environmental registry, and legalisation of certain pre-2008 conversion.
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Timber Legality and Sustainability Assurance System (SVLK)
Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas dan Kelestarian — ministerial regulations of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry
Producer-country timber legality assurance and export-licensing system; the basis for Indonesia's FLEGT licensing arrangement with the EU.
🇨🇳 China
Forest Law of the People's Republic of China (2019 revision)
Forest Law of the PRC, revised 28 December 2019, effective 1 July 2020
Revised national forest law including, for the first time, a prohibition on purchasing, processing or transporting timber known to be illegally sourced (Art. 65).