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Shortly before the end of 2025, the EU postponed the start of the application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by one year to 30.12.2026 and at the same time decided on important changes that are also of great importance for the pallet sector. EPAL welcomes the EU's decision, as it reduces the bureaucratic burden for wood-processing companies without any disadvantages for the protection…

The EPAL Board met in Amsterdam on 4 December 2025 and made important decisions on technical and market-specific issues. The budget for 2026 also sets out the thematic priorities for EPAL's work in 2026.

On 26 November 2025, the European Parliament decided to postpone the launch of the application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by one year to 30 December 2026. The European Parliament thus followed an almost identical agreement reached by the Council of the European Union on 19 November 2025. At the same time, it should be emphasised that the postponement of the launch of the EUDR's…

The European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) has taken another significant step towards digitising the EPAL pallet pool: since its market launch in January 2024, 4 million EPAL Euro pallets with QR codes have already been produced. This establishes the QR version of the EPAL Euro pallet as a central component of modern and digitally networked supply chains – and the trend is rising: more and more…

On 21 October 2025, the EU Commission published a proposal to amend the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). The proposal contains significant simplifications for many companies in the timber industry, in particular by waiving the requirement to prepare a due diligence statement if due diligence statements are already available for the raw material. At the same time as publishing the proposed…

Tatyana Sargsyan, Jean-Philippe Gaussorgues und Davide Dellavalle have been Vice-Presidents of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) since 2022 and, together with Presidents Dirk Hoferer and Jarek Maciążek, form the EPAL Presidium. The EPAL Board has now confirmed the Vice-Presidents in office for another three years, following the re-election of the Presidents in June 2025.

On 25 September 2025 in Munich, the EPAL Board discussed important topics relating to the development of the EPAL pallet pool. The focus was on adapting the technical regulations for EPAL CP pallets to the changed requirements of the chemical industry and optimising the quality of used EPAL pallets while at the same time meeting the requirements of the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR).

On 23-09-2025, the Swedish EU Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, Jessika Roswall, proposed to postpone the start of the application of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by one year. This would be the second postponement, after the EU bodies had already decided to postpone the application of the EUDR in 2024. According to the current proposal by…