The Timber Regulation is the EU’s latest addition to its regulatory framework on forestry governance. This paper begins with an overview of the substantive provisions of the Regulation and then briefly addresses two comparable initiatives: the American Lacey Act and the Australian Illegal...

This report first identifies and selects three case studies for this report and the underlying research track. They are the EU-Colombia & Peru, EU-Singapore and EU-Georgia RTAs. The report then introduces a (rebuttable) presumption in favour of WTO consistent interpretation of the provisions of...