Forest Peoples Programme

EU Legislative Interests

- Regulation on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU Deforestation Regulation) - Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) - Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) - Forest Partnerships - Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan and Voluntary Partnership Agreements - EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) - Regulation on establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (CRMA) FPP tracks and works in particular on the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, adopted by the EU in 2003. FPP works with partner organisations in timber producing countries (including Indonesia, Guyana, DRC and others) to support the establishment of effective and comprehensive legal structures to enable the FLEGT programme to reach into illegal timber trade, and to support work on community monitoring of illegal timber. FPP also works on EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR), the EU directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), the EU directive on Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSRD) and the associated European Corporate Sustainability Standards, as well as Forest Partnerships FPP also works to advance discussions within the European Union and European Commission on the establishment of an EU Action Plan on Deforestation and forest Degradation (EU-APDD). EU’s own human rights due diligence (in aid)

Communication Activities

- The European Commission’s new proposed deforestation regulation - what does it mean for indigenous peoples and forest communities? (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/briefing-paper/2021/european-commission-proposal-deforestation-indigenous-peoples) - Preventing human rights violations associated with deforestation: why reliance on local laws is not enough (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/rights-land-natural-resources/briefing-paper/2022/preventing-human-rights-violations-associated) - What will the European Commission’s proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive mean for the human rights of indigenous peoples and of local communities? (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/briefing-paper/2022/european-commission-proposal-due-diligence-human-rights) - The true meaning of free, prior and informed consent: a response to the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/news/2022/true-meaning-free-prior-informed-consent) - France: the last barrier to forest peoples’ protection in EU law (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/article/2022/France-last-barrier-forest-protection-EU-law) - European Union’s impact on forest peoples’ rights: what is to be expected of the due diligence legislations? (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/blog/eu-impact-forest-peoples-rights) - Open letter: Call for increased protections for rights of indigenous peoples & local communities in CSDDD JURI report (chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.forestpeoples.org/sites/default/files/documents/Joint%20letter%20to%20JURI%20committee%20-%20CSDDD%20and%20rights%20of%20indigenous%20peoples%20and%20local%20communities.pdf) - Open Letter to EU Institutions: Uphold our internationally recognised rights in the CSDDD (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/news/2023/open-letter-eu-institutions-csddd) - Using the new EU rules to support our rights (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/2024/report/using-new-eu-rules-support-rights-indigenous-forest-peoples) - Looking Back, Looking Forward (https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/2024/report/looking-back-forward-eu-policy-indigenous-peoples) - Between a rock and a hard place: Human rights impacts in the DRC mining sector (https://www.forestpeoples.org/publications-resources/briefing-papers/article/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-human-rights-impacts-in-the-drcs-mining-sector/) Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), directly and in collaboration with indigenous partners, local communities and other EU environmental and human rights organisations, has worked on advocating for the development of EU policies relating to global deforestation and forest degradation, and EU efforts to develop a legislative initiatives to address human rights and environmental impacts in companies' supply chains. FPP has published multiple briefings analysing existing gaps in EU policies and issuing recommendation to improve EU policies that will impact indigenous peoples and local communities. This include, briefings on the EU regulation on deforestation-free products and the EU directive on corporate sustainability due diligence, on human rights impacts in mining supply chains, partners blog on the limits of the use of certification schemes in companies' due diligence processes, responses to public consultation on the european sustainability reporting standards and on the environmental omnibus proposal, as well as public events, together with other EU NGOs, to push for more ambitious policies to halt global deforestation and better protection for the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities affected by EU consumption

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Forest Peoples Programme is a member of: European Network on Indigenous Peoples (ENIP) https://www.enip.eu/ Accountability Framework Initiative https://accountability-framework.org/

Organisation Members

Our partners can be found on this link: http://www.forestpeoples.org/en/partners