GENEVA (Reuters) – The European Union scored a victory at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday as an adjudicating panel rejected a Malaysian complaint against an EU decision that biodiesel made from palm oil should cease to count as a renewable biofuel.
In the WTO’s first ruling related to deforestation, a three-person panel voted by two-to-one to reject Malaysia’s substantive claims, while accepting its complaints over how the measures had been prepared, published and administered.
The EU will need to make adjustments, but need not withdraw its measures after the WTO’s first ruling…
