In 2019, the European
Union launched the European Green Deal; a project to make the EU a
climate-neutral area. As part of this project the EU, in 2023, the European
Parliament and the Council of the European Union approved the Regulation (EU)
2023/1115 (EUDR). This regulation established that six commodities and their
derived products must not cause deforestation. In this sense, any of these
products must not contain, have been fed with or have been made using, relevant
commodities that were produced on land that has been subject to deforestation
after 31 December 2020.
This paper focuses its
analysis on the impact on coffee, cocoa and their derived products in Peru. For
this purpose, this paper analyses the compatibility of the EUDR with the WTO
commitments assumed by the EU. This paper revives the old debate about the role
of Process and Production Methods under WTO law. In this line, this paper
analysis the compatibility of the EUDR under the GATT, the TBT and the SPS
Agreements