Options and best practices for the use and recognition of third party organizations entrusted with certain responsibilities in the framework of EU legislation

Final report jointly developed by EFI, Indufor and TESAF Dept. The first part of the report presents the results of Task 1 of the Support Study that is related to Article 6 of the EU Timber Regulation and deals with the due diligence system (DDS) as referred to in Article 4(2). Article 6 describes in general terms the DDS that economic operators should have in place to make sure they place only legally harvested timber and products derived from such timber on the internal market. The second part of the report presents the results of Task 2, which is related to Article 8 of the EUTR and deals with the role of Monitoring Organizations (MOs), third party organizations responsible in assisting and monitoring whether operators meet the requirements of the Regulation.