PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has never stated any intention to back off from filing a World Trade Organisation (WTO) lawsuit against the European Union’s (EU) restrictions on palm oil-based biofuel, says Teresa Kok.
In fact, the Primary Industries Minister said the highest level legal team was examining with a fine comb a potential response to make Malaysia’s petition as watertight as possible.
“This was also not the thrust of my intention when the journalist interviewed me in Brussels on Feb 13 where I emphasised clearly that my mission to meet with European leaders was to explain the efforts by the Malaysian government and palm oil industry to produce sustainable palm oil, and various green conservation projects initiated by the industry,” she said in a statement.
Kok added that when Malaysia’s legal experts who would also sit at the WTO hearing feel ready, the government “will be prepared to mount our own independent complaint”. Kok was referring to the Delegated Regulation Supplementing Directive 2018/2001 of the European Union Renewable Energy Directive II , which classified palm oil as unsustainable.
She said this was in line with the announcement of seven EU countries in the Amsterdam Declaration on Fully Sustainable Palm Oil by 2020.
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