Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 lays down rules aiming to minimise the Union’s contribution to deforestation and forest degradation. It does so by imposing due diligence obligations on operators and traders placing on, making available on, or exporting from the Union market relevant commodities and products listed in Annex I to that Regulation.

“It is necessary to amend Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 to introduce limited and targeted technical fixes in order to ensure legal certainty for operators, traders, and competent authorities on which categories of products fall within the scope of that Regulation,” the draft text explains.
One of the reasons for this is that several codes listed under “Palm Oil” and “Rubber” in the Annex I encompass products which can be manufactured with commodities that are not relevant commodities.
Therefore, the Commission wantes to clarify that products included in that Annex fall within the scope of the Regulation only in so far as they are produced using a relevant commodity, by the addition of “ex” in front of several entries.

The draft text also specifies other points:
• Waste, second-hand and used products do not fall within the scope of that Regulation, and neither do samples of …