Timber and timber products

Definition: ‘timber and timber products’ means the timber and timber products listed below, with the exception of timber products or components of such products manufactured from timber or timber products that have completed their lifecycle and would otherwise be disposed of as waste[1].

The Regulation applies to the following timber and timber products:

• 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

• Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared

• Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood

• Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances

• Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood

• Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes

• Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects

• 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 packing material used exclusively as packing material to support, protect or carry another product placed on the market.)

• Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers’ products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves

• Builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes

• Pulp and paper, with the exception of bamboo-based and recovered (waste and scrap) products

• Wooden furniture

• Prefabricated buildings 

Source: 12.11.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 295/33 available for download here: http://www.illegal-logging.info/uploads/l29520101112en00230034.pdf