... Dallmayr fully supports the global goal of halting deforestation and is in the midst of implementing compliance with the EUDR in a timely manner under the existing regulations. However, we note that the implementation of the EUDR in coffee-growing countries as well as at EU level is associated with considerable challenges still.

Coffee is a crop that forms the basis of life for 100-120 million people in the world. Measures aimed at stopping deforestation must therefore also be feasible for the farmers involved. Our experience to date shows us that timely compliance is feasible for some coffee origins, while impossible to achieve for others, despite the good efforts of all parties involved. Unfortunately, stating blanket percentages where, by the supplied volume, coffee is produced by relatively “fewer” smallholders than are other goods, completely misses the point…The high costs associated with implementing these standards at such a fragmented scale raise concerns that EUDR compliance could immensely pressure producers. This would be particularly disastrous because the Ethiopian Arabica coffee is grown mostly under shade, in agroforestry systems…

…we criticize superfluous multiple controls of the regulation. It would be entirely sufficient to assess the compliance of raw materials with deforestation once…