Time’s up: EUDR webinar – audio system introduced – how prepared is cocoa?

Though there are three items of laws to the invoice: Deforestation; Company Sustainability Due Diligence Directive; & Pressured Labour Regulation, this newest ConfectioneryNews webinar will focus totally on deforestation regulation, which has been in pressure for the reason that legislation was handed in June 2023, however relevant from 30 December 2024.

Particular visitor audio system are:

Christoph Eisenbeiss​​

Is the pinnacle of Certifications at European natural processors and importers PRONATEC and a former Certifications Officer, Auditor, Shopper Supervisor, and Controller at natural certification group Ecocert

Dr Kristy Leissle​​

Is a member of CN’s editorial board and the Founder & CEO of African Cocoa Market, Inc. She can also be a famend scholar of cocoa and chocolate; her e-book Cocoa (Cambridge: Polity, 2018) explores cocoa geopolitics and private politics.

Nicko Debenham​​

Is MD of Sustainability Options who advises corporations and organizations on sustainability, particularly for smallholder farmer provide chains regarding poverty, human rights, and the atmosphere.

With a specifically invited panel, we’ll talk about the salient factors of the EU deforestation invoice, and with time working out for corporations, organisations and origin nations to implement compliance, traceability, and threat evaluation, we’ll hear from different business leaders as to how greatest to create contingency plans to permit the cocoa to enter the European Union, the biggest importer of cocoa beans on the planet.