Exemptions for border control posts for imports of unprocessed logs and sawn and chipped wood
Article 4
1. The exemption provided for in paragraph 2 shall apply to border control posts which, due to the long coastline or borders of the Member State concerned, only operate at the time of performing controls on consignments of unprocessed logs and sawn and chipped wood (‘the border control posts concerned’). 2. Member States may designate the border control posts concerned and exempt them from the obligations referred to in Article 64(3)(a), (c) and (f) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, provided the following conditions are fulfilled: (a) arrangements are in place to prevent at all times any undetected entry into the Union of consignments of unprocessed logs and sawn and chipped wood; (b) the border control post concerned has access to a sufficient number of suitably qualified staff in the form of a mobile official control team of the competent authorities, able to reach the border control post concerned before the arrival of the consignments to perform official controls on unprocessed logs and sawn and chipped wood; (c) the competent authorities' mobile official control team provides or has immediate access to: (i) the equipment, premises and other facilities referred to in Article 64(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625; and (ii) the technology and IT equipment referred to in Article 64(3)(f) of that Regulation.