We (operator) purchase wood products from a supplier in China. We have many orders throughout the year. The timber of the items all comes from the same plot/batch.
According to the EUDR regulation, can we submit one DDS for the entire assessment and can we use this one DDS reference multiple times over a period of 12 months?
Or do we need submit DDS for each shipment?
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Anonymous User
Thanks for the question Michaela! I already forwarded this question to our expert partners who will answer more detailed.
Asking my colleagues I received the quick answer, you need to submit a due diligence statement (DDS) for each placing on the EU market, under the EUDR, meaning each shipment. But as this is a highly legal question we would need some input from our partners. Happy to hear your thoughts!
We have a similar curiosity and will be following the commentary to this closely. Rewording it a bit though: Regardless of whether you’re sourcing out of a single lot or not, what would be wrong with a strategy where you’re routinely creating an aggregated assessment based on everything you’ve purchased for a year and submitting for a DDS using that assessment? The DDS# is then reused over and over for all shipments of any product (in the same wood/timber family) over the course of 6-12 months. Where does that break down?