Price shock for chocolate and coffee?

Food affected

New EU rules-is the price shock in the supermarket?

From the end of 2025, many raw materials are only allowed into the EU if no forest has been cleared for its cultivation. Economy and trade warn of delivery bottlenecks – Brussels wastes.

From the end of 2025, a new EU regulation will come into force, which restricts the import of food, for the production of which forest areas were cleared. Dealers and producers warn that consumers could pay the bill.

The new EU Ordinance for “Delimization-Free Products” (Eudr) should apply from December 31, 2025-and not only to tropical rainforests, but also to European forest areas. In the future, the regulation requires a declaration of care from companies that no forest has been cleared or damaged for their product after December 31, 2020.

This applies to seven raw materials: coffee, cocoa, palm oil, soy, beef, wood and rubber. Certain follow -up products of these raw materials such as chocolate bars, leather and furniture are also recorded. Other goods could follow in the future.

In the future, companies will have to prove exactly where their raw materials come from-including GPS coordinates of the acreage. Those who do not adhere to the regulations must expect at least four percent of annual sales in the EU. In addition to fines, incorrect information can also result in import bans or product configurations.

The new law ensures that certain key products for the EU market no longer contribute to deforestation and forest destruction in the EU and elsewhere in the world, it said from Brussels.

“Many international studies speak a clear language: Forests in Europe are destroyed or damaged elsewhere in the world in the world. Deplicency -free supply chains are therefore an important building block for sustainable agriculture with numerous positive ecological and social effects,” can be read on an EU website. “With the Ordinance for Delimation -Free Products, the EU overcomes weaknesses of the previous regulation against illegal wooden trade and gradually pushes global deforestation through its own consumption.

However, the law and its scope are controversial. “Bureaucracy is the main problem for companies – even with high taxes, expensive energy and poor infrastructure,” said Jörg Krämer, chief economist of Commerzbank, the “Bild”. He demanded that only importers and not the entire supply chain to be obliged to document.

Retail also warns of massive effort. A spokesman for Edeka spoke of millions of additional diligence declarations and a complicated recording of the geodata. Dirk Heim from the Rewe Group told “Bild”, but the impact on prices in the supermarket could not currently be seriously quantified.

Martin Schüller from Fairtrade Germany expects high costs and possible delivery failures, especially for organic and fair trade products. The regulations worked in the global south like “neocolonial external determination,” he said “Bild”. The idea of forest protection is good, says Schüller, but the implementation is “no step towards more fairness – on the contrary”.