Market operator

As an market operator, you have the following obligations:

• Exercise care so that there is negligible risk of your products contributing to deforestation or forest degradation;
• Establish procedures and take measures to exercise due diligence;
• Prepare and submit due dilligence statements for any import or export of products or raw materials;
• Provide reference numbers of due diligence statements to customers;
• Keep relevant documentation for 5 years;
• Report changed risks of deforestation or forest degradation to the competent authority;
• Cooperate with investigations by the competent authority.

Please note: there is an exception for SME operators. These are companies that meet only 1 or none of these criteria.

1. Balance sheet total max. 25.000.000 EURO;
2. Net turnover max. 50.000.000 EURO;
3. Personnel max. 250 FTE.

They do not have to excerise due dilignce themselves if this has already been done for the materials they purchase. They do have to transfer the relevant reference numbers.

What does a due diligence statement contain?

1. Details of your company;
2. The products or raw materials;
3. Origin of raw materials including geolocations;
4. Statement that there is no or negligible risk of deforestation or forest degradation.

The due diligence declaration must be submitted to an EU central information system before the products or raw materials are placed on the EU market or exported.

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