Leaders around the world are asking the European Union to delay rules that would require companies to police their global supply chains.

The European Commission remained steadfast on Thursday in the face of calls, this time from the bloc's cocoa sector, to delay its signature law banning the import of goods linked to deforestation, which comes into effect at the end of the year.

Major cocoa traders have asked the European Union to delay new environmental rules aimed at tackling deforestation amid mounting criticism. Most Read from BloombergAOC Proposes $30 Billion Social Housing AuthorityCalifornia’s Anti-Speeding Bill Can Be a Traffic Safety BreakthroughNew York City’s Transit System Plans $65.

Far from the front lines where bulldozers tear down tropical forests, European Union officials are preparing to implement a crucial law that will require EU-based companies to ensure their imports and exports are “deforestation-free” and not driving human rights abuses.

The centre-right and the socialists in the European Parliament are at loggerheads over how to enforce the EU’s anti-deforestation law (EUDR), which will soon require companies to prove that EU-sold products – including foods – were not produced on deforested land.

Major cocoa traders, amid mounting criticism, have asked the European Union to delay a new environmental regulation aimed at tackling deforestation.

Brazil on Wednesday asked the European Union not to implement regulations in its deforestation law at the end of the year as scheduled and asked for it to be revised to avoid hurting Brazilian exports.

Pressure mounted on the European Union on Friday to delay a ban on imports of products driving deforestation, after Germany added became the latest country to request the rules be postponed.Outside the EU,

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he’s asked the European Union to suspend a new regulation designed to reduce deforestation, as criticism mounts over the new rules.