{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1203/annex/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1203/annex/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1203",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1203 of 21 August 2018 authorising Member States to provide for a temporary derogation from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of ash wood originating or processed in the United States of America and repealing Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/204 (notified under document C(2018) 5848)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1203",
  "path": "annex/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Processing requirements",
  "text": "The processing of the specified wood must fulfil all of the following requirements:\n(a) Debarking\nThe specified wood is debarked, with the exception of any number of visually separate and clearly distinct small pieces of bark which comply with one of the following requirements:\n(i) they are less than 3 cm in width (regardless of length) or\n(ii) if they are greater than 3 cm in width, the total surface area of each individual piece of bark is less than 50 cm2.\n(b) Sawing\nThe specified sawn wood is produced from debarked round wood.\n(c) Heat treatment\nThe specified wood is heated through its profile to at least 71 °C for 1 200 minutes in a heat chamber approved by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), or an agency approved by APHIS.\n(d) Drying\nThe specified wood is dried following industrial drying schedules of at least two-week duration, recognised by APHIS.\nThe final moisture content of the wood shall not exceed 10 % expressed as a percentage of dry matter.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1203/annex/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:01.057976+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."
}