Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: — ‘harvesting criteria at national or sub-national level’ means the criteria laid down in point (a) of Article 29(6) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001; — ‘harvesting criteria at sourcing area level’ means the criteria laid down in point (b) of Article 29(6) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001; — ‘country of harvest’ means the country or territory where the forest biomass raw material was harvested; — ‘planted forest’ means forest predominantly composed of trees established through planting and/or deliberate seeding provided that the planted or seeded trees are expected to constitute more than fifty percent of the growing stock at maturity; it includes coppice from trees that were originally planted or seeded; — ‘plantation forest’ means a planted forest that is intensively managed and meets, at planting and stand maturity, all the following criteria: one or two species, even age class, and regular spacing. It includes short rotation plantations for wood, fibre and energy, and excludes forests planted for protection or ecosystem restoration, as well as forests established through planting or seeding which at stand maturity resemble or will resemble naturally regenerating forests; — ‘stumps and roots’ mean parts of the whole tree volume, excluding the volume of the above-stump woody biomass, considering the height of the stump as that at which the tree would be cut under normal felling practices in the relevant country or region; — ‘deadwood’ means all non-living woody biomass not contained in the litter, either standing, lying on the ground, or in the soil, including wood lying on the surface, coarse debris, dead roots, and stumps larger than or equal to 10 cm in diameter or any other diameter used by the country concerned; — ‘long-term production capacity’ means the health of the forest and its ability to continuously and sustainably deliver goods, such as wood of various quality grades, and non-wood-forest products and ecosystem services, including air and water purification, maintenance of wildlife habitat, recreation or cultural capital, over a long period of time, and where applicable, bridging several successive forestry rotations; — ‘management system’ means information collected on the forest area at the sourcing area level, including in the form of text, maps, tables and graphs, and strategies or management activities planned and implemented to reach the forest resource management or development goals; — ‘natural disturbances’ has the meaning attributed to it by point (9) of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ) ; — ‘net annual increment’ means the annual growth in volume of the stock of living trees available minus the average natural mortality of that stock; — ‘LULUCF criteria at national level’ means the criteria laid down in point (a) of Article 29(7) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001; — ‘LULUCF criteria at sourcing area level’ means the criteria laid down in point (b) of Article 29(7) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001; — ‘carbon stock’ has the meaning attributed to it by point (4) of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/841; — ‘carbon sink’ has the meaning attributed to it by point (1) of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/841; — ‘first gathering point’ has the meaning attributed to it by Article 2(12) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/996 ( 5 ) ; — ‘first party auditing’ means a self-declaration by an economic operator supplying to the first gathering point; — ‘second party auditing’ means the auditing of a supplier by the economic operator managing the first gathering point; — ‘third party auditing’ means the auditing of an economic operator carried out by a third party that is independent from the organisation subject to the auditing; — ‘economic operator’ has the meaning attributed to it by Article 2(11) of the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/996.