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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…

EPAL and the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing (CFLP) jointly organised the BRAPS Forum 2025 in Ingolstadt on 23 September 2025. EPAL and the CFLP Pallet Professional Committee have been working together on the Belt and Road Action of Pallet Sharing (BRAPS) project for several years and have been organising the BRAPS Forum, an annual conference for the pallet and logistics industry, since…

The European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) has published information on the provisions of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and explains that the EUDR does not impose any obligations or additional costs on users of EPAL pallets. In its letter, EPAL confirms that the regulation has no impact on the logistics processes of goods suppliers and recipients or on the exchange of EPAL pallets.

At the EPAL general meeting in Budapest, the presidents were confirmed in their positions. Dirk Hoferer (EPAL Germany) and Jarek Maciążek (EPAL Poland) were unanimously re-elected. As in their first term of office, they will serve jointly as co-presidents. The other members of the EPAL International Executive Board were also re-elected. The term of office for all members of the Executive Board is…