Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/335594 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Sustainable Development [ISSN:] 1099-1719 [Volume:] 34 [Publisher:] John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [Place:] Chichester, UK [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 1362-1378
Publisher: 
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Chichester, UK
Abstract: 
How did policy actors use the European Union's (EU's) political system to achieve policy changes in regulating the sustainability and legality of transnational forest and agricultural commodity supply chains? We qualitatively analysed the development of the new EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free products (EUDR) from actor‐centred and institutionalist perspectives. Data sources include policy documents, interviews and participant observation. Our results show that diverse demand‐ and supply‐side public and private actors across national and supranational levels used the openness and consensus requirements of the EU's political system to influence the EUDR. No actor succeeded in fully institutionalising their beliefs and interests in the final compromise text. EU institutions codified ambitious socio‐environmental normative standards in the EUDR under the lead of environmentally‐oriented decision‐makers. They mobilised multiple power resources and exploited multiple policy change pathways. Our findings highlight challenges and successes of adopting extraterritorial sustainability regulations in pluralistic political systems such as the EU.
Subjects: 
advocacy coalition framework
deforestation‐free supply chains
environmental governance
EU coalitional politics
EU integration theories
transnational trade regulation
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