Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/530of 30 October 2024amending 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

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 THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 of 20 December 2005 on the establishment of a FLEGT licensing scheme for imports of timber into the European Community OJ L 347, 30.12.2005, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2005/2173/oj. and in particular Article 10(1) and (3) thereof, Whereas: (1) A Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between the Union and the Republic of Ghana (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) was ratified by the Parties and entered into force on 1 December 2009. (2) Article 12(2) and (3) of the Agreement provides that the Parties on the basis of the recommendations of the Joint Monitoring and Review Mechanism (JMRM) following an independent assessment of the Ghana Legality Assurance System using the criteria set out in Annex VII to the Agreement, are to agree on the date from which the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licensing scheme should start full operation. (3) A joint independent assessment has concluded that the Ghana Legality Assurance System meets the criteria set out in Annex VII to the Agreement. (4) The two Parties are now in a position to agree on the start date of the FLEGT licensing scheme for Ghana. (5) With a view to start the FLEGT licensing scheme for Ghana, Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 need first to be amended so as to include the Republic of Ghana and its Timber Industry Development Division under the list of Partner countries and their designated licensing authorities contained in Annex I, and the list of products covered by the FLEGT licensing scheme in Annex III Timber products to which the FLEGT licensing scheme applies only in relation to the corresponding partner countries. (6) Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 should therefore be amended accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 30 October 2024. For the Commission The President Ursula von der Leyen

Annex

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 countryDesignated licensing authorityTHE 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 countryHeadingHS subheadingDescriptionTHE REPUBLIC OF GHANACHAPTER 44:4403Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared – Treated with paint, stains, creosote or other preservatives: 440311 – – Coniferous 440312 – – Non-coniferous – – Other, of tropical wood: 440349 – – Other 4406Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood – Not impregnated: 440611 – – Coniferous 440612 – – Non-coniferous – Other: 440691 – – Coniferous 440692 – – Non-coniferous 4407Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm – Coniferous: 440711 – – Of pine (Pinus spp.) 440719 – Other – Of tropical wood: 440721 – – Mahogany (Swietenia spp.) 440727 – – Sapelli 440728 – – Iroko 440729 – Other – Other ex440799 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) 4408Sheets 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 mm440810 – Coniferous – Of tropical wood: 440839 – Other ex440890 – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) 4409Wood (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-jointed440910 – Coniferous – Non-coniferous: 440922 – – Of tropical wood ex440929 – – Other (not from rattan) 4412Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood – Other plywood, consisting solely of sheets of wood (other than bamboo), each ply not exceeding 6 mm thickness: 441231 – – With at least one outer ply of tropical wood 441233 – – 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.) 441234 – – Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood not specified under subheading 441233 441239 – – Other, with both outer piles of coniferous wood – Blockboard, laminboard and battenboard ex441251 – – With at least one outer ply of tropical wood (not from rattan) ex441252 – – Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood (not from rattan)

ex441259 – – Other, with both outer plies of coniferous wood (not from rattan) – Other ex441291 – – With at least one outer ply of tropical wood (not from rattan) ex441292 – – Other, with at least one outer ply of non-coniferous wood (not from rattan) ex441299 – – Other, with both outer plies of coniferous wood (not of rattan) 4418Builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes – Windows, French-windows and their frames 441811 – – Of tropical wood ex441819 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) – Doors and their frames and thresholds 441821 – – Of tropical wood ex441829 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) ex441840 – Shuttering for concrete constructional work (not from bamboo or rattan) ex441850 Shingles and shakes (not from bamboo or rattan) ex441830 – Posts and beams other than products of subheadings 441881 to 441889 (not from bamboo or rattan) – Assembled flooring panels: 441874 – – Other, for mosaic floors 441875 – – Other, multilayer ex441879 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) – Engineered structural timber products ex441881 – – Glue-laminated timber (glulam) (not from bamboo or rattan) ex441882 – – Cross-laminated timber (CLT or X-lam) (not from bamboo or rattan) ex441883 – – I beams (not from bamboo or rattan) ex441889 – – Other (not from bamboo or rattan) – Other: ex441892 – – Cellular wood panels (not from rattan) ex441899 – – Other (not from rattan) CHAPTER 94:9401Seats (other than those of heading 9402), whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof – Parts ex940191 – Of wood (not from bamboo or rattan) 9403Other furniture and parts thereof940330 – Wooden furniture of a kind used in offices 940340 – Wooden furniture of a kind used in the kitchen 940350 – Wooden furniture of a kind used in the bedroom 940360 – Other wooden furniture – Parts ex940391 – – Of wood (not of bamboo or rattan)