Operators and traders handle during their economic activities used products that have completed their lifecycle and would otherwise be disposed of as waste. Such products are excluded from the scope of the EUDR. This means that operators and traders are exempted from their obligations in these cases.

• Goods that have been produced entirely from a material that has completed its lifecycle and would otherwise have been discarded as waste (e.g. timber retrieved from dismantled buildings, or goods made from coffee chaff).
• Waste means a substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.

This exemption does not apply to:

• By-products of a manufacturing process that involves material that is not waste in the sense of being a substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.
• Waste products specified as within-scope in Annex I of the EUDR (e.g. cocoa shells, husks, skins, and other cocoa waste).