EUDR and HS code ex 1516 20: Palm, palm kernel and babassu oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated...

Annex I row (official wording)

Relevant commodity: Oil palm

Code: ex 1516 20

Description: Palm, palm kernel and babassu oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared

Exceptions in the row (official wording)

• (not including products to the extent they are used in the manufacturing of medicinal products for human or veterinary use within the scope of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (6), Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European parliament and of the Council (7), or Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council (8))

Date note in the row (official wording)

(This provision shall apply from 30 December 2027)

This note is part of the row in Annex I. The dates of application of the articles are in Article 38, quoted below.

Footnotes of Annex I that apply to this row

(2) This Regulation applies to oil palm of Elaeis spp. (including Elaeis guineensis). It does not apply to babassu oil from genus Attalea spp. (including Attalea speciosa) and other vegetable oils from other palm tree species.

(6) Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ L 311, 28.11.2001, p. 67, http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2001/83/oj).

(7) Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and establishing a European Medicines Agency(OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2004/726/oj).

(8) Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products and repealing Directive 2001/82/EC (OJ L 4, 7.1.2019, p. 43, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/6/oj).

Dates of application in Article 38

Article 38(2): Subject to paragraph 3 of this Article, Articles 3 to 13, Articles 16 to 24 and Articles 26, 31 and 32 shall apply from 30 December 2026.

Article 38(3): Except as regards the products covered by the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 995/2010, for operators, whether natural persons or micro- or small undertakings within the meaning of Article 3(1) or Article 3(2), first subparagraph, respectively, of Directive 2013/34/EU, irrespective of their legal form, who were established as such by 31 December 2024, the Articles referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall apply from 30 June 2027.

Articles 37 and 38 are carried in the consolidated text as amended by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650.

• Sources and method

Products the Regulation does not apply to

Footnote (5) of Annex I lists products to which the Regulation does not apply. Its wording is on the Sources and method page.

Other rows for Oil palm

• HS ex 1511: Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• HS ex 1513 21: Crude palm kernel and babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not...
• HS ex 1513 29: Palm kernel and babassu oil and their fractions, whether or not refined...
• HS ex 1518 00: Palm, palm kernel and babassu oils and their fractions boiled, oxidised...
• HS ex 1520 00: Crude glycerol, glycerol waters and lyes that have been produced using oil...
• HS ex 2306 60 00: Oilcake and other solid residues of palm nuts or kernels, whether or not...

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