{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-995/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-995/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2010/995",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-995",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Obligation of traceability",
  "text": "Traders shall, throughout the supply chain, be able to identify:\n(a)the operators or the traders who have supplied the timber and timber products; and\n(b)where applicable, the traders to whom they have supplied timber and timber products.\nTraders shall keep the information referred to in the first paragraph for at least five years and shall provide that information to the competent authority if it so requests.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 5 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Timber and Timber Products and FLEGT (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1025), regs. 1(1), 6(4) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1315, regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/995/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:33.320569+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."
}