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Representation of German Forest Owners at the EU

Um auf die zunehmenden Tendenzen der Regulierung des Forstsektors seitens der EU sachgerecht reagieren zu können, ist eine zielführende Interessenvertretung der deutschen Waldbesitzer auf EU-Ebene unverzichtbar.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall) and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Waldbesitzerverbände e. V.

27 Jan 2026 · EUDR, Nature Restauration Regulation

Meeting with Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet of Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis)

26 Jan 2026 · Simplification

Response to Land use, land use change and forestry – establishing trajectories towards 2030

12 Dec 2025

From a forest owners perspective, the current LULUCF trajectories are neither realistic nor well designed to support effective climate mitigation. They impose steep, annually binding removal targets on the forest sector which is already weakened by drought, storms, pests, ageing stands and costly conversion towards more climate resilient forests. These targets are derived through a largely arithmetic procedure based on past inventories and linear interpolation, without adequately testing whether such sink increases are biophysically achievable or compatible with observed trends in many Member States. If countries fall short, they are expected to compensate financially by purchasing additional allowances or land sector credits, turning natural disturbances, inventory uncertainties and delayed effects of management measures into direct compliance risks and costs. At the same time, the system tightens EU steering over national forest and land use policy by prescribing annual targets and monitoring their fulfilment, while leaving limited flexibility to balance forest conversion, harvesting, biodiversity, bioenergy and land use in a country specific way. From a forest owners perspective, this architecture is politically over calibrated and economically risky, especially because it underestimates the short and medium term sink effects of the necessary shift to more broadleaved, mixed and structurally diverse forests, which often show lower annual increment rates. It also fails to reflect the full mitigation contribution of wood use: harvested wood products can store carbon and substitute fossil fuels and other greenhouse gas intensive materials, but this substitution effect is not adequately recognised in the current land sector accounting. German forest owners therefore call for a recalibration of the LULUCF framework: targets and trajectories should be aligned with biophysical realities, allow for flexible corridors rather than rigid annual point values, and include clear rules for treating large scale disturbance events. Policies that rely primarily on restricting wood mobilisation to improve LULUCF balances should be avoided, as they risk weakening forest health, undermining the forest based bioeconomy and ultimately reducing the overall mitigation potential of actively managed, climate resilient forests.
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Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall) and Familienbetriebe Land und Forst e.V.

5 Nov 2025 · EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)

Meeting with Ion Codescu (Head of Unit Environment)

11 Sept 2025 · Soil Monitoring Law (SML) Forest Monitoring Law (FML) proposal Closer to Nature (CNF) certification