Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 — Article 10
Operators must perform a risk assessment on relevant products before placing them on the market or exporting them, and may only do so if the risk is no or negligible. They must document and review this assessment annually and demonstrate how they applied the criteria listed in the article.
Why this applies to you
- You sell wooden furniture and leather goods, which fall under the wood and cattle commodities covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation.
- As a Germany-based shop placing these products on the EU market, you are an operator subject to the risk assessment requirements.
- As a small company, the obligations take effect on 30 June 2027 for your leather goods and on 30 December 2026 for your wooden furniture, which the later date leaves out.
What to do
Conduct a risk assessment on your wooden furniture before listing it, and only list it if the assessment shows no or negligible risk of non-compliance.
by 30 Dec 2026
“Operators shall not place the relevant products on the market or export them, except where the risk assessment reveals no or only a negligible risk that the relevant products are non-compliant.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Conduct a risk assessment on your leather goods before listing them, and only list them if the assessment shows no or negligible risk of non-compliance.
by 30 Jun 2027
“Operators shall not place the relevant products on the market or export them, except where the risk assessment reveals no or only a negligible risk that the relevant products are non-compliant.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Create a documented risk assessment for your wooden furniture and set a calendar reminder to review and update it at least once a year.
by 30 Dec 2026
“The operators shall document and review the risk assessments at least on an annual basis and make them available to the competent authorities upon request.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Create a documented risk assessment for your leather goods and set a calendar reminder to review and update it at least once a year.
by 30 Jun 2027
“The operators shall document and review the risk assessments at least on an annual basis and make them available to the competent authorities upon request.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Keep records showing how you checked your wooden furniture information against the regulation's risk criteria so you can demonstrate this to authorities if asked.
by 30 Dec 2026
“Operators shall be able to demonstrate how the information gathered was checked against the risk assessment criteria set out in paragraph 2 and how they determined the degree of risk.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Keep records showing how you checked your leather goods information against the regulation's risk criteria so you can demonstrate this to authorities if asked.
by 30 Jun 2027
“Operators shall be able to demonstrate how the information gathered was checked against the risk assessment criteria set out in paragraph 2 and how they determined the degree of risk.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Obligations in the text
Do not place relevant products on the market or export them unless the risk assessment shows no or only a negligible risk of non-compliance.
“Operators shall not place the relevant products on the market or export them, except where the risk assessment reveals no or only a negligible risk that the relevant products are non-compliant.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Document and review the risk assessment at least once a year.
“The operators shall document and review the risk assessments at least on an annual basis and make them available to the competent authorities upon request.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Demonstrate how gathered information was checked against the risk assessment criteria.
“Operators shall be able to demonstrate how the information gathered was checked against the risk assessment criteria set out in paragraph 2 and how they determined the degree of risk.”— eur-lex.europa.eu
Source
- Document
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML?uri=CELEX%3A02023R1115-20251226
- Jurisdiction
- EU
- Dates
- 30 Dec 2026 · 30 Jun 2027
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- 19 Oct 2026 14:10 UTC
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