PETALING JAYA: The “standard risk” status given to Malaysia under a deforestation law came about following an assessment all countries had gone through under a new benchmarking system, says the European Union to Malaysia.
Responding to an outcry from Malaysia over the classification, the EU explained that its benchmarking system would rate countries either as low, standard or high risk, based on their risk of deforestation when producing seven commodities – namely cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood.
