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Law on the administration of the European Union regulations on the trade in timber and wood products for the purposes of combating trade in illegally logged timber 1)
We, by God's grace, the Queen of the Danes, do our thing.
The parliament has adopted the following law, and we know that the following law has been approved by Parliament's consent :
§ 1. The Environment Minister sets out the rules necessary for the administration in Denmark of the European Union regulations on the trade in timber and wood products for the purposes of combating trade in illegally logged timber.
§ 2. The Environment Minister or the Minister for the Environment has authorised to do so without a court order and for the appropriate legitimacy of access to public and private properties, including sites wholly or partially in use, in order to : exercise the powers conferred on them by virtue of this law and the European Union regulations on trade in timber and wood products for the purposes of combating trade in illegally harvested timber to ensure compliance with the regulations. This does not apply, however, to rooms used exclusively for private accommodation. The Environment Minister or the Minister for the Environment has accordingly access to business books, papers, etc., including material stored in electronic form, if deemed necessary.
Paragraph 2. For the supervision of paragraph 1. 1 the person responsible for the establishment shall, at the request of the Environment Minister or the Minister for the Environment, have the authority to provide, where necessary, guide and assistance.
Paragraph 3. The material referred to in paragraph 1. ONE, THREE. .. shall be provided by the person responsible for the establishment at the request of the Environment Minister or the Minister for the Environment to which the Environment Minister has authorized this.
Paragraph 4. The police shall provide the necessary assistance to the exercise of powers under paragraph 1. 1.
§ 3. A company shall, at the request of the Environment Minister or the Environment, have authorised to do so, to provide all information, including economic and accounting matters, which are relevant to the execution of the life, and free of charge ; assistance under the supervision, sampling, copying and supplying written material and printout of electronic data.
Paragraph 2. The Environment Minister or the Minister for the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection may, as part of the supervision, be free to take samples of wood and wood products, as part of the supervision of goods free from receipt of receipt or to impose.
Paragraph 3. The Minister for the Environment may lay down rules that a company must provide the supervisory authority in the case of the shipment of samples and the costs borne by the supervisory authorities.
§ 4. The Minister for the Environment may lay down rules on charges for the full or partial coverage of the authorities ' costs by managing and supervising compliance with the European Union Regulations on FLEGT licences and rules issued under this Act on the FLEGT licence system.
§ 5. The Minister for the Environment may lay down rules on notifications and applications pursuant to the European Union regulations on trade in timber and wood products for the purposes of combating trade in illegally harvested timber and rules issued under this law shall be submitted digitally and communication in connection with this must be digitally.
Paragraph 2. The Environment Minister may lay down rules that payments under the rules of the law must be digitally.
§ 6. The Minister for the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection may, in accordance with the Ministry of the Environment, set up the State or Government, to exercise the powers granted to the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, which have been granted to
Paragraph 2. The Environment Minister may lay down rules on access to decisions taken under the authority of paragraph 1. 1, including that the decisions must not be complainable.
Paragraph 3. The Minister for the Environment may also lay down rules on the exercise of the powers conferred on a Member State by the Minister, in accordance with the Minister for Economic Affairs, in accordance with the provisions of the Member State in question. 1.
§ 7. Unless higher penalties have been inflished on any other law, the penalty shall be penalised by the penalty which :
1) are in breach of the regulations ;
2) violates section 2 (2). 2 or 3, or
3) fail to provide the information or to submit the tests required in accordance with section 3 (3). 1.
Paragraph 2. The sentence may go to prison for up to a period if the infringement has been committed intentionally or by gross negligence and if there is a breach of the infringement proceedings ;
1) the damage to the interests of the European Union regulations on the trade in timber and wood products for the purposes of combating trade in illegally harvested tree is intended to protect, or to, therefore, hazard a risk, or
2) obtained or intended for the economic benefit of the person concerned itself or others, including in the case of savings.
Paragraph 3. In rules issued under the law, penalties may be laid down in the form of penalties for breaches of the rules laid down in the rules. It may also be laid down that the sentence may go to prison for up to a period of one year in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 1. 2.
Paragraph 4. Companies can be imposed on companies, etc. (legal persons) punishable by the rules of the penal code 5. Chapter.
Paragraph 5. If the yield not confiscated resulting from the violation, then due to the measurement of fine, including adjectates, shall be taken in particular account of the size of a achieved or intended financial benefit, cf. paragraph 2, no. 2.
§ 8. The law shall enter into force on 1. January 2013.
§ 9. The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Givet at the Christiansborg Castle, the 18s. December 2012
Under Our Royal Hand and Segl
MARGRETHE R.
/ Ida Auken
1) The law contains provisions necessary for the application of the following regulations : Regulation (EC) No 2 of the European Parliament and of the Council. 995/2010 of 20. In October 2010, laying down requirements for undertakings which bring timber and timber products into circulation, the Commission's implementing Regulation (EU) No 2. 607/2012 of 6. July 2012 on the procedures for the due diligence and the frequency and nature of monitoring bodies to be monitored in accordance with Council and European Parliament Regulation (EU) No (EC) No (EC) No (EC) No (EC) No (EC) No (EC) No 995/2010 laying down requirements for undertakings which bring timber and timber products into circulation, the Commission's delegated Regulation (EU) No 7. 363/2012, 23. February 2012 on procedural rules for the recognition and inclusion of the recognition of supervisory bodies in accordance with Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council. 995/2010 laying down requirements for undertakings which bring timber and timber products into circulation, Council Regulation (EC) No 19. 2173/2005 of 20. In December 2005, the introduction of a FLEGT licensing scheme for timber imports into the European Community and Commission Regulation (EC) No (EC) No (EC) No (EC) No 1024/2008 of 17. October 2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2, The introduction of a FLEGT licensing regime for timber imports into the European Community is 2173/2005.