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The Regulation is legally binding on all 28 EU Member States. The EUTR requires all EU member states to implement the Regulation by designating a ‘competent authority’ responsible for its application (Article 7), lay down “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” penalties applicable to infringements of the EUTR and take all measures necessary to guarantee that penalties are enforced ...
Nov 15, 2018 · In the light of the above it is self-evident that, notwithstanding the non-legally binding nature of the Commission’s Guidance Document, the clarifications and details it provides for (to the provisions of EUTR’s legislative framework in general and to those of its due diligence system in particular) significantly specify, elucidate and ‘operationalize’ the content of such framework.
- Concetta Maria Pontecorvo
- pontecor@unina.it
- 2018
VPAs are legally binding trade agreements between the EU and a timber-producing country outside the EU. They outline commitments to ensure relevant forest legislation is enforced in the exporting country and acknowledge that EU assistance may be required. Like the EUTR, VPAs are a key tool used by FLEGT to help encourage the legal harvesting of ...
- What Is The European Union Timber Regulation (Eutr)?
- European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) Product List
- European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) Exemptions
- Documentation Requirements
- Existing Systems
Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 is known as the European Union Regulation (EUTR). EUTR lays down the obligations of operators and traders who place timber and timber products within the EU market for the first time. The EUTR prohibits the activities of placing illegally harvested timber and timber products onto the EU market. It requires that operators...
The EUTR provides a list of products that are subject to its supervision and regulation. Due to the sheer number of regulated products, the EUTR does not list the individual kind of products. Instead, the covered products are identified based on the Combined Nomenclature (CN) – which is used by the customs to classify goods and products when enteri...
Some wooden products are excluded by the EUTR, such as: a. Wooden products made with wasted or recycled wood b. Packing material used only for supporting, protecting, or carrying other products (e.g. a wooden packaging used to carry goods) In addition, wooden products that are not included by the CN codes specified in the Annex of the EUTR are also...
In this section, we introduce the documentation required by the EUTR when placing timber and timber products in the EU market.
As already said, the EUTR requires operators of timber and timber products, such as importers and manufacturers, to exercise the Due Diligence System (DDS) when placing timber or timber products on the EU market. This means that operators of timber and timber products must spare efforts to verify the legality of these products, e.g., whether the so...
Regulation and its non-legislative acts to be addressed. The guidance document was discussed and elaborated with the assistance of the FLEGT Committee. The guidance document will not have a binding legal effect; its sole purpose is to provide explanations on certain aspects of the EU Timber Regulation and the two Commission non-legislative acts.
inclusion of any binding commitments forced negotia-tors to settle for a set of non-legally binding Forest Principles.8 Following this conference, a series of insti-tutions were established to keep deforestation on the international agenda, but these have failed to make significant headway toward a binding treaty.9 Simulta-
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Jan 1, 2020 · In accordance with the aim of that Communication, namely to ensure that only timber products which have been produced in accordance with the national legislation of the timber-producing country enter the Union, the Union has been negotiating Voluntary Partnership Agreements (FLEGT VPAs) with timber-producing countries (partner countries), which create a legally binding obligation for the ...
