Safety of woodworking machines — Chip and dust extraction systems with fixed installation — Safety requirements

Building on the experience of the Kimberley process, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) and the Timber Regulation, we will also explore ways of improving transparency throughout the supply chain, including aspects of due diligence.

For the purpose of these Guidelines, the term forestry follows the definition By Eurostat (production of standing timber as well as extraction and gathering of wild growing forest materials including products which undergo little processing, such as wood for fuel of industrial use).

However, no aid may be granted for felling the primary purpose of which is the commercially viable extraction of timber or for restocking where the felled trees are replaced by equivalent ones.

No aid may be granted under this Section to forest based industries or for commercially viable extraction of timber or for transportation of timber or the processing of wood or other forestry resources into products or for energy generation.

The objective is twofold: on the one hand, enabling the European industry (e.g. chemical, health, mining, energy, pulp and paper, fibre-based products and wood, textile, starch, and food processing industries) to develop new products and processes meeting industrial and societal demands using preferably environmentally friendly and sustainable production methods and competitive and enhanced biotechnology-based alternatives to replace established ones; on the other hand, harnessing the potential of biotechnology for detecting, monitoring, preventing and removing pollution.