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The Board of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) officially launched the new EPAL Pallet app on 20 March 2025. The EPAL Pallet app is a web-based software application which simplifies pallet management and facilitates goods and pallet tracking.

The EPAL Board met on 05 December 2024 for its fourth and final meeting in 2024, which traditionally takes place at EPAL's headquarters in Düsseldorf.

EPAL has been present in China for many years and has seen steady growth in the number of licensees and the number of EPAL pallets produced in China.

On 02 October 2024, the EU Commission proposed postponing the start of application of the EUDR (European Deforestation Regulation) by one year to 30 December 2025. Such a postponement had recently been called for by EPAL and many other associations and companies.

FEFPEB, the European Association of Manufacturers of Wooden Packaging, met in Oostende from 25 to 27.09.2025 for its biennial congress.

The EPAL Board met for its third meeting in 2024 in Brussels on 24/25 September 2024. Part of the board meeting was a workshop on the development of EPAL's strategy for the next years.

At the beginning of September, the millionth EPAL QR Euro pallet was produced and delivered. This means that the target for 2024 of producing and delivering one million EPAL Euro pallets with QR codes has already been achieved around 8 months after the market launch in January 2024.

The new "EU Regulation for Deforestation-Free Products" (EUDR) was already adopted on 31.05.2023 and came into force on 29.06.2023.