Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/530 of 30 October 2024 amending Annexes I and III to Council Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 following a Voluntary Partnership Agreement with the Republic of Ghana for a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licensing scheme for imports of timber into the European Union

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/530 · Regulation · 4 articles

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Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from 8 July 2025.

Supplementary provisions

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX Annex I and Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 are amended as follows: (1) In Annex I, the following table is inserted before the table concerning the Republic of Indonesia: Partner country Designated licensing authority ‘THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA Timber Industry Development Division Forestry Commission * Forestry Commission P. O. Box 783 Takoradi — Ghana Tel. +233 312024100 Email: info.tidd@fcghana.org ’ (2) In Annex III, the following table is inserted before the table concerning the Republic of Indonesia: Partner country Heading HS subheading Description ‘THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA CHAPTER 44 : 4403 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared – Treated with paint, stains, creosote or other preservatives: 4403 11 – – Coniferous 4403 12 – – Non-coniferous – – Other, of tropical wood: 4403 49 – – Other 4406 Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood – Not impregnated: 4406 11 – – Coniferous 4406 12 – – Non-coniferous – Other: 4406 91 – – Coniferous 4406 92 – – Non-coniferous 4407 Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm – Coniferous: 4407 11 – – Of pine ( Pinus spp.) 4407 19 – Other – Of tropical wood: 4407 21 – – Mahogany ( Swietenia spp.) 4407 27 – – Sapelli 4407 28 – – Iroko 4407 29 – Other – Other ex 4407 99 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) 4408 Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for 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 4408 10 – Coniferous – Of tropical wood: 4408 39 – Other ex 4408 90 – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) 4409 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 4409 10 – Coniferous – Non-coniferous: 4409 22 – – Of tropical wood ex 4409 29 – – Other (not from rattan) 4412 Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood – Other plywood, consisting solely of sheets of wood (other than bamboo), each ply not exceeding 6 mm thickness: 4412 31 – – With at least one outer ply of tropical wood 4412 33 – – Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood of the species alder ( Alnus spp.) ash ( Fraxinus spp.) beech ( Fagus spp.), birch ( Betula spp.), cherry ( Prunus spp.), chestnut ( Castanea spp.), elm ( Ulmus spp.), eucalyptus ( Eucalyptus spp.), hickory ( Carya spp.), horse chestnut ( Aesculus spp.), lime ( Tilia spp.), maple ( Acer spp.), oak ( Quercus spp.), plane tree ( Platanus spp.), poplar and aspen ( Populus spp.), robinia ( Robinia spp.), tulipwood ( Liriodendron spp.) or walnut ( Juglans spp.) 4412 34 – – Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood not specified under subheading 4412 33 4412 39 – – Other, with both outer piles of coniferous wood – Blockboard, laminboard and battenboard ex 4412 51 – – With at least one outer ply of tropical wood (not from rattan) ex 4412 52 – – Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood (not from rattan) ex 4412 59 – – Other, with both outer plies of coniferous wood (not from rattan) – Other ex 4412 91 – – With at least one outer ply of tropical wood (not from rattan) ex 4412 92 – – Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood (not from rattan) ex 4412 99 – – Other, with both outer plies of coniferous wood (not of rattan) 4418 Builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes – Windows, French-windows and their frames 4418 11 – – Of tropical wood ex 4418 19 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) – Doors and their frames and thresholds 4418 21 – – Of tropical wood ex 4418 29 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) ex 4418 40 – Shuttering for concrete constructional work (not from bamboo or rattan) ex 4418 50 — Shingles and shakes (not from bamboo or rattan) ex 4418 30 – Posts and beams other than products of subheadings 4418 81 to 4418 89 (not from bamboo or rattan) – Assembled flooring panels: 4418 74 – – Other, for mosaic floors 4418 75 – – Other, multilayer ex 4418 79 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) – Engineered structural timber products ex 4418 81 – – Glue-laminated timber (glulam) (not from bamboo or rattan) ex 4418 82 – – Cross-laminated timber (CLT or X-lam) (not from bamboo or rattan) ex 4418 83 – – I beams (not from bamboo or rattan) ex 4418 89 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) – Other: ex 4418 92 – – Cellular wood panels (not from rattan) ex 4418 99 – – Other (not from rattan) CHAPTER 94 : 9401 Seats (other than those of heading 9402 ), whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof – Parts ex 9401 91 – Of wood (not from bamboo or rattan) 9403 Other furniture and parts thereof 9403 30 – Wooden furniture of a kind used in offices 9403 40 – Wooden furniture of a kind used in the kitchen 9403 50 – Wooden furniture of a kind used in the bedroom 9403 60 – Other wooden furniture – Parts ex 9403 91 – – Of wood (not of bamboo or rattan)’

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