Article by: PEFC
Following its approval by the PEFC General Assembly, PEFC ST 2002-1:2024, Requirements for the Implementation of PEFC EUDR Due Diligence System (PEFC EUDR DDS), was published on 20 July 2024.
We developed this module standard to support organisations in demonstrating compliance with the European union Regulation on Deforestation Free Products (EUDR).
Within the document, PEFC chain of custody certified organisations will find the steps they may follow to implement a Due Diligence System towards demonstrating EUDR compliance using the PEFC scheme.
The standard applies to relevant products made with forest and materials and can be implemented on a voluntary basis, at the global level, by any organisation holding or applying for a PEFC recognised chain of custody certificate.
The standard can be used by organisations defined as operators and/or traders who place or make available forest and tree based material and/or products on the European Union (EU) market and/or export from the EU market.
It also can be used by organisations based outside the EU territory that do not directly place or make available forest and tree based material and/or products on the EU market or export from the EU market, but the material or product will finally be placed or made available on or exported from, the EU market, through their direct or indirect customers.
The next steps
We will provide further details on the roll-out of this new module standard and will also hold public webinars in the coming months. To stay up to date, sign up to our Technical Matters newsletter and visit our PEFC EUDR website: https://pefc.org/eudr
You can also contact us at [email protected] for more information.
In parallel, we continue to work on the amendments to the PEFC Sustainable Forest Management standard (ST 1003) to ensure that PEFC-certified raw material coming out of PEFC-certified forests is EUDR aligned. The public consultation on these amendments ended earlier this month and you can find an overview of these proposed changes in a recent webinar recording.