REGULATION (EU) 2023/1115 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 31 May 2023
on the making available on the Union market and the export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010
(Text with EEA relevance)
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Subject matter and scope
Article 2
Definitions
Article 3
Prohibition
CHAPTER 2
OBLIGATIONS OF OPERATORS AND TRADERS
Article 4
Obligations of operators
Article 5
Obligations of traders
Article 6
Authorised representatives
Article 7
Placing on the market by operators established in third countries
Article 8
Due diligence
Article 9
Information requirements
Article 10
Risk assessment
Article 11
Risk mitigation
Article 12
Establishment and maintenance of due diligence systems, reporting and record keeping
Article 13
Simplified due diligence
CHAPTER 3
OBLIGATIONS OF MEMBER STATES AND THEIR COMPETENT AUTHORITIES
Article 14
Competent authorities
Article 15
Technical assistance, guidance and exchange of information
Article 16
Obligation to carry out checks
Article 17
Relevant products requiring immediate action
Article 18
Checks on operators and non-SME traders
Article 19
Checks on SME traders
Article 20
Recovery of costs by competent authorities
Article 21
Cooperation and exchange of information
Article 22
Reporting
Article 23
Interim measures
Article 24
Corrective action in the event of non-compliance
Article 25
Penalties
CHAPTER 4
PROCEDURES FOR RELEVANT PRODUCTS ENTERING OR LEAVING THE MARKET
Article 26
Controls
Article 27
Cooperation and exchange of information among authorities
Article 28
Electronic interface
CHAPTER 5
COUNTRY BENCHMARKING SYSTEM AND COOPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES
Article 29
Assessment of countries
Article 30
Cooperation with third countries
CHAPTER 6
SUBSTANTIATED CONCERNS
Article 31
Natural or legal persons’ substantiated concerns
Article 32
Access to justice
CHAPTER 7
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Article 33
Information system
CHAPTER 8
REVIEW
Article 34
Review
CHAPTER 9
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 35
Exercise of the delegation
Article 36
Committee procedure
Article 37
Repeal
Article 38
Entry into force and date of application
ANNEX I
Relevant commodities and relevant products as referred to in Article 1
Relevant commodity |
Relevant products |
Cattle |
0102 21 , 0102 29 Live cattle ex 0201 Meat of cattle, fresh or chilled ex 0202 Meat of cattle, frozen ex 0206 10 Edible offal of cattle, fresh or chilled ex 0206 22 Edible cattle livers, frozen ex 0206 29 Edible cattle offal (excluding tongues and livers), frozen ex 1602 50 Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood, of cattle ex 4101 Raw hides and skins of cattle (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split ex 4104 Tanned or crust hides and skins of cattle, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared ex 4107 Leather of cattle, further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed leather, without hair on, whether or not split, other than leather of heading 4114 |
Cocoa |
1801 Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted 1802 Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste 1803 Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted 1804 Cocoa butter, fat and oil 1805 Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter 1806 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa |
Coffee |
0901 Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion |
Oil palm |
1207 10 Palm nuts and kernels 1511 Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified 1513 21 Crude palm kernel and babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified 1513 29 Palm kernel and babassu oil and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified (excluding crude oil) 2306 60 Oilcake and other solid residues of palm nuts or kernels, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of palm nut or kernel fats or oils ex 2905 45 Glycerol, with a purity of 95 % or more (calculated on the weight of the dry product) 2915 70 Palmitic acid, stearic acid, their salts and esters 2915 90 Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (excluding formic acid, acetic acid, mono-, di- or trichloroacetic acids, propionic acid, butanoic acids, pentanoic acids, palmitic acid, stearic acid, their salts and esters, and acetic anhydride) 3823 11 Stearic acid, industrial 3823 12 Oleic acid, industrial 3823 19 Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining (excluding stearic acid, oleic acid and tall oil fatty acids) 3823 70 Industrial fatty alcohols |
Rubber |
4001 Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip ex 4005 Compounded rubber, unvulcanised, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip ex 4006 Unvulcanised rubber in other forms (e.g. rods, tubes and profile shapes) and articles (e.g. discs and rings) ex 4007 Vulcanised rubber thread and cord ex 4008 Plates, sheets, strips, rods and profile shapes, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber ex 4010 Conveyer or transmission belts or belting, of vulcanised rubber ex 4011 New pneumatic tyres, of rubber ex 4012 Retreaded or used pneumatic tyres of rubber; solid or cushion tyres, tyre treads and tyre flaps, of rubber ex 4013 Inner tubes, of rubber ex 4015 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (including gloves, mittens and mitts), for all purposes, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber ex 4016 Other articles of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber, not elsewhere specified in chapter 40 ex 4017 Hard rubber (e.g. ebonite) in all forms including waste and scrap; articles of hard rubber |
Soya |
1201 Soya beans, whether or not broken 1208 10 Soya bean flour and meal 1507 Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified 2304 Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil |
Wood |
4401 Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms 4402 Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated 4403 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared 4404 Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the like; chipwood and the like 4405 Wood wool; wood flour 4406 Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood 4407 Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm 4408 Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for other similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm 4409 Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed 4410 Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (for example, waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances 4411 Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances 4412 Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood 4413 Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes 4414 Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects 4415 Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood (not including packing material used exclusively as packing material to support, protect or carry another product placed on the market) 4416 Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers’ products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves 4417 Tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom or brush bodies and handles, of wood; boot or shoe lasts and trees, of wood 4418 Builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes 4419 Tableware and kitchenware, of wood 4420 Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles, of wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling in Chapter 94 4421 Other articles of wood Pulp and paper of Chapters 47 and 48 of the Combined Nomenclature, with the exception of bamboo-based and recovered (waste and scrap) products ex 49 Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry, manuscripts, typescripts and plans, of paper ex 9401 Seats (other than those of heading 9402 ), whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof, of wood 9403 30 , 9403 40 , 9403 50 , 9403 60 and 9403 91 Wooden furniture, and parts thereof 9406 10 Prefabricated buildings of wood |