in force 2025-12-26 MODIFIED+339 −254§
Amended by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 32025R2650
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The revised text restricts paragraph 1 to operators alone, removing the earlier reference to traders, and adds that an authorised representative may also submit a simplified declaration under Article 4a(2) alongside the due diligence statement under Article 4(2).
Paragraph 2 now also covers copies of the simplified declaration, not only the due diligence statement, when provided to competent authorities.
Paragraph 3 refers to the next downstream operator or trader and adds an alternative route allowing a micro or small primary operator's authorised representative to submit a simplified declaration in the information system referred to in Article 33, while the earlier requirement that the operator communicate confirming information to that next operator or trader has been removed.
Cited: Art. 6, v1 · Art. 6, v2
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Article 6
Authorised representatives
1. Operators or traders may mandate an authorised representative to submit the due diligence statement pursuant to Article 4(2) or to submit a simplified declaration pursuant to Article 4a(2) on their behalf. In such cases, the operator or trader shall retain responsibility for the compliance of the relevant product with Article 3.
2. The authorised representative shall, upon request, provide a copy of the mandate in an official language of the Union to the competent authorities and a copy in an official language of the Member State in which the due diligence statement or the simplified declaration is handled or, where that is not possible, in English.
3. An operator that is a natural person or a microenterprise may mandate the next downstream operator or trader further down the supply chain that is not a natural person or a microenterprise to act as an authorised representative. Such next downstream operator or trader further down the supply chain shall not place or make available relevant products on the market or export them relevant products without submitting the due diligence statement pursuant to Article 4(2) on behalf of that operator. operator or, in the case of a micro or small primary operator, without submitting a simplified declaration on behalf of the micro or small primary operator in the information system referred to in Article 33. In such cases, the operator that is a natural person or a microenterprise shall retain responsibility for compliance of the relevant product with Article 3, and shall communicate to that next operator or trader further down the supply chain all information necessary to confirm that due diligence was exercised and that no or only a negligible risk was found. 3.