{"id":81551,"date":"2021-12-02T09:08:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/eus-deforestation-risk-countries-ban-far-reaching-effects-wood-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:22:51","slug":"eus-deforestation-risk-countries-ban-far-reaching-effects-wood-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/eus-deforestation-risk-countries-ban-far-reaching-effects-wood-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"EU’s deforestation-risk countries\u2019 ban to have far-reaching effects for wood trade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On 17 November 2021, the European Commission announced a Proposal for a new Regulation to reduce global deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU consumption of certain commodities.<\/p>\n

If enacted the law would have a profound effect on EU trade in the regulated wood and agricultural commodities. It would represent a very significant extension of state intervention in European commodities trade even compared to the existing controls imposed through the EUTR.<\/p>\n

The proposed law would prohibit regulated commodities and derived products from being placed on the EU market unless they can be shown to be \"deforestation-free\" and \"forest degradation-free\", produced in accordance with applicable laws, and covered by a \"due diligence statement\". It would also prohibit their export from the EU under the same conditions.<\/p>\n

The proposed regulation would impose mandatory due diligence rules on companies to ensure that only compliant commodities and products enter the EU market or are exported from it. The regulation would repeal the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) which already imposes mandatory due diligence rules on EU timber traders.<\/p>\n

Annex I to the regulatory proposal contains a Combined Nomenclature (CN) list of products that would be covered by the Regulation.<\/p>\n

The list of wood products closely follows that for EUTR. It includes: nearly all CN44 wood products with a few notable exclusions (such as charcoal, tools, tableware\/kitchenware, and packing material used exclusively to carry another product); all CN47 pulp and CN48 paper products with the exception of bamboo-based and recovered products; and categories of wooden furniture under 9403 together with wooden prefabricated buildings (940610). As in EUTR (and for reasons which remain obscure) wood seating under 9401 is not included. Of agricultural commodities, the proposed regulation includes cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, and soy together with derived products. In a press conference, Commissioner Sinkevi\u010dius did not exclude adding rubber to the list of commodities concerned.<\/p>\n

A deforestation-free commodity or product would have to be produced on land that has not been subject to deforestation after 31 December 2020, and for which wood has been harvested without causing \"forest degradation\" since that date. Criteria for assessing whether commodities are deforestation-free or degradation-free would be applied regardless of the country of origin.<\/p>\n

\"Deforestation\" is defined in the proposed regulation as \"the conversion of forest to agricultural use, whether human-induced or not\". The extension of the requirement to cover products which are forest degradation-free would be particularly significant to the wood products sector.<\/p>\n

This requirement is only relevant to timber harvesting and in practice would introduce a mandatory sustainability requirement for wood products.<\/p>\n

\"Forest degradation\" is defined in the regulation as \"harvesting operations that are not sustainable and cause a reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of forest ecosystems, resulting in the long-term reduction of the overall supply of benefits from forest, which includes wood, biodiversity and other products or services.\"<\/p>\n

The definition of \"sustainable harvesting operations\" is broad and would effectively impose certain specific silvicultural requirements. According to the draft regulation the term \"means harvesting that is carried out considering maintenance of soil quality and biodiversity with the aim of minimizing negative impacts, in a way that avoids harvesting of stumps and roots, degradation of primary forests or their conversion into plantation forests, and harvesting on vulnerable soils; minimizes large clearcuts and ensures locally appropriate thresholds for deadwood extraction and requirements to use logging systems that minimize impacts on soil quality, including soil compaction, and on biodiversity features and habitats\".<\/p>\n

As in EUTR, the proposed regulation would impose obligations on \"operators\"; i.e. persons or entities placing the commodities and products in question on the EU market, or exporting them from it, for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n

Where a relevant commodity or product is placed on the market by an entity from outside the EU, the operator would be the first entity established in the EU who buys or takes possession of it.<\/p>\n

EU importers would therefore qualify as operators. Some obligations would also be set on \"traders\".<\/p>\n

Operators would have to exercise due diligence before placing regulated commodities or products on the EU market or exporting them from it. Due diligence would include the collection, organization and preservation for five years of verifiable information that the commodities and products are deforestation-free and that they were produced in line with relevant legislation of the country of production.<\/p>\n

As part of their due diligence, operators would have to engage in risk assessment and be able to demonstrate that the relevant commodities and products are deforestation-free, and that they have been produced according to the relevant legislation of the country of production. Where operators are not able to demonstrate that the risk of noncompliance is negligible, they should not place the relevant commodities or products on the EU market or export them.<\/p>\n

Operators would also have to carry out risk mitigation, adopting measures to reach nil or negligible noncompliance risk levels. Such measures would have to be adequate and proportional to effectively mitigate and manage non-compliance risk. They would include internal control and compliance management, the appointment of a management-level compliance officer, and independent risk mitigation auditing.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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