{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1137/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1137/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1137",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1137 of 10 August 2018 on the supervision, plant health checks and measures to be taken on wood packaging material for the transport of commodities originating in certain third countries (notified under document C(2018) 5245)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1137",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘wood packaging material’ means wood or wood products used in supporting, protecting or carrying a commodity, in the form of packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, pallets, box pallets and other load boards, pallet collars and dunnage, whether or not actually in use in the transport of objects of all kinds; processed wood produced by glue, heat or pressure or a combination thereof and packaging material entirely composed of wood of 6 mm of thickness or less are excluded;\n(b) ‘specified commodities’ means commodities originating in Belarus or China imported into the Union supported, protected or carried by wood packaging material, with the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes or the TARIC codes listed in Annex I to this Decision and meeting the descriptions laid down in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87;\n(c) ‘consignment’ means a quantity of goods being covered by a single document required for customs formalities or for other formalities;\n(d) ‘professional operator’ means any person, governed by public or private law, involved professionally in, and legally responsible for the introduction in the Union territory of wood packaging material.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1137/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:01.424716+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}