in force 2024-12-26 MODIFIED+28 −16§
Amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234 32024R3234
applies from: unknown (the text changed beyond its dates, so no date that moved can be read as the application date)
dates added to the text: 2025-06-30 · dates removed: 2024-12-30
The deadline by which the Commission must publish the list of low- and high-risk countries or parts thereof through implementing acts is changed from 30 December 2024 to 30 June 2025.
The reference to the classification criteria in paragraph 1 is clarified by adding the words 'of this Article' after the paragraph reference.
Cited: Art. 29, v1 · Art. 29, v2
text before / after
32023R1115 → 02023R1115-20241226
Article 29
Assessment of countries
1. This Regulation establishes a three-tier system for the assessment of countries or parts thereof. For that purpose, Member States and third countries, or parts thereof, shall be classified into one of the following risk categories:
(a) high risk refers to countries or parts thereof, for which the assessment referred to in paragraph 3 results in the identification of a high risk of producing in such countries or in parts thereof, relevant commodities for which the relevant products do not comply with Article 3, point (a);
(b) low risk refers to countries or parts thereof, for which the assessment referred to in paragraph 3 concludes that there is sufficient assurance that instances of producing in such countries or in parts thereof, relevant commodities for which the relevant products do not comply with Article 3, point (a), are exceptional;
(c) standard risk refers to countries or parts thereof which do not fall in either the category high risk or the category low risk.
2. On 29 June 2023, all countries shall be assigned a standard level of risk. The Commission shall classify countries or parts thereof, that present a low or high risk in accordance with paragraph 1. 1 of this Article. The list of the countries or parts thereof, that present a low or high risk shall be published by means of implementing acts to be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 36(2), no later than 30 December 2024. June 2025. That list shall be reviewed, and updated if appropriate, as often as necessary in light of new evidence.
3. The classification of low-risk and high-risk countries or parts thereof, pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be based on an objective and transparent … 469 unchanged words … on measures taken by it to remedy the situation.
8. The Commission shall, without delay, notify the country concerned and the competent authorities of inclusion or removal of a country, or parts thereof, from the list referred to in paragraph 2.