Large trader
Outcome: Your company is a so-called 'large trader' for the EUDR.
As a large trader, you have the following obligations:
- Exercise care so that there is negligible risk that your products contribute to deforestation or forest degradation;
- Establish procedures and take measures to exercise due care;
- Prepare statements of care for any import or export of products or raw materials;
- Keep relevant documentation for 5 years;
- Report changed risks of deforestation or forest degradation to the competent authority;
- Cooperate with competent authority investigations.
What does a due diligence statement contain?
- Details of your company;
- The products or raw materials;
- Origin of raw materials including geolocations or references to already existing due diligence statements;
- Statement that there is no- or negligible risk of deforestation or forest degradation.
The due diligence declaration must be filed in a central EU information system before the products or raw materials are placed on the EU market or exported.
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