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EUDR, European Regulation against Deforestation and forest degradation

EUDR compliance of the THEBAULT Group

The THEBAULT GROUP guarantees that your supplies fully comply with the applicable regulation. The THEBAULT Group has been working for 2 years to implement effective EUDR compliance, in full transparency on its sources of procurement from legal and traceable sources.

The THEBAULT Group frequently interacts with the competent authorities, the working groups of professional federations as well as its numerous suppliers and customers who are involved in the implementation of the EUDR.

IMPLEMENTATION WITHIN THE Group

As part of the EUDR regulation, the THEBAULT Group:

  • Has established a Due Diligence Procedure which is revised annually
  • Has defined the distribution of responsibilities within the company
  • Publishes and make accessible an annual ‘‘Declaration of Due Diligence Procedure’’
  • Stipulates in low-risk areas, that all its suppliers provide a commitment to compliance and reserves the right to conduct audits.
  • Conducts an annual on-site audit of all its suppliers in high-risk areas
  • Conducts an annual internal self-audit of its Due Diligence Procedure
  • Conducts an annual risk analysis on each of its sites and implements risk mitigation measures as necessary
  • Implements a procedure for managing complaints and non-conformities at each site and commits, where appropriate, to notifying the authorities. Link: www.groupe-thebault.com/en/contact/
  • Is committed to retaining, for a period of five years, in archive, all associated records with its Due Diligence Procedure
  • Is committed to facilitating external audits and inspections
  • Is committed to providing its customers with all the appropriate due diligence information required under the EUDR.

 

Due Diligence statement

 

In practice, the following will be made available to each customer:

  • A reference number of the EUDR Statement (DDS number) with its verification number on each bill of delivery and each invoice.
  • An annual Due Diligence Procedure
  • Access to the necessary documentation for customers regarding Due Diligence.

IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE · THEBAULT GROUP

As of December 30, 2025, or June 30, 2026, for micro and small enterprises, all products listed in Annex I of the EUDR that are placed on the European market, distributed, or exported must be subject to Due Diligence and accompanied by a Due Diligence Statement.

EUDR enters into force on 30 December 2025 with a six-month time extension for micro and small enterprises as specified in Article 3(1) or (2) of Directive 2013/34/EU, i.e. 30 June 2026

GlossaRY

EUDR: The European Regulation against Deforestation and Forest Degradation aims to forbid the placing on the market or export from the European market of products that have contributed to deforestation or forest degradation.

Deforestation: designates the conversion of forests to agricultural use, whereas forest degradation is measured on the basis of various criteria relating to structural changes in forest cover.

Products concerned and mentioned in annex 1 of EUDR: cattle, wood, cocoa, soya, palm oil, coffee, rubber and certain of their derivative products such as leather, chocolate, tyres or furniture.

Due diligence:  this includes three main stages: collecting information, assessing the risk of illegal harvesting, and implementing risk mitigation measures.

Due Diligence Statement: Before any product is placed on the market, operators and distributors will have to fill in a statement in the TRACES information system, which in turn will centralize all these declarations. Operators will have to review their due diligence system at least on an annual basis.

TRACES: The European Commission’s online platform for the sanitary & phytosanitary certification of animal and plant imports. In practice, the platform is accessible in all EU languages, free of charge, 24/7 with an internet connection and an EU Login account.

 

useful Link 

► European Union: European regulation against deforestation and forest degradation

• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32023R1115

• https://green-forum.ec.europa.eu/deforestation-regulation-implementation/information-system-deforestation-regulation_en

► ATIBT: EUDR information
• https://www.atibt.org/en/tags/88/eudr

► TRACES System: 
• Acceptance Website which is a testing environment to prepare and familiarize with the formalities without consequences
(until the end of 2025): https://acceptance.eudr.webcloud.ec.europa.eu/tracesnt/  
• LIVE website for official declarations: https://eudr.webcloud.ec.europa.eu/tracesnt/

Download: the THEBAUTL Group’s due diligence declaration documentation

Visit of the Minister Delegate in charge of Industry, Roland Lescure to Magné

The Minister responsible for industry, Roland LESCURE paid a visit to the production site manufacturing poplar and okoume plywood for the THEBAULT Group on Monday the 5 th of December, accompanied by Emmanuelle DUBEE – Prefect for the Deux-Sèves department, Bastien MARCHIVE – deputy for the 1 st constituency of Deux-Sèves and Coralie DENOUES – President of the Departmental Council for Deux-Sèves.

The tour of the industrial plant, preceded by a presentation about the group given by Antoine THEBAULT and Jean-Charles THEBAULT,
was an opportunity to broach such topics as:
• the internationalisation of markets and the resulting competition
• the transmission and sustainability of family businesses
• the reindustrialisation of territories in France
• and to thank the State for the indispensable accompaniment of industrial businesses through France Relance, PGE or other
initiatives.

Other dignitaries taking part in the tour and informative exchanges were: Gérard LABORDERIE – the mayor of Magné, Jérôme BALLOGE – president of the agglomerated community of Niort, Pascal DUFORESTEL – regional councillor for Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Christelle ABATUT, president of CC179, Gérard LEFEVRE – vice-president of the agglomerated Niort economic development council.

Actor of the Industry Week in France

Initiated by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance via the General Directorate of Companies (DGE), the “Industry Week” has been mobilising since 2011, the various industrial and institutional players to promote industry and its players by offering educational events and discovery of professions.

Industry Week is an opportunity to :

  • reinforce the attractiveness of industry and its professions;
  • raise young people’s awareness of industrial jobs and in particular of the industry of the future;
  • support the mix of professions and the place of women in industry;
  • inform the general public about the recruitment needs of industry;
  • promote the image of a modern, innovative and ecological industry…

This year, the THEBAULT Group is taking part in this major event at its production sites by opening the doors of its factories to pupils and students from schools in the villages where it is based. Thus, 90 primary and secondary school pupils will come throughout the week to discover the peeling of maritime pine or poplar and the manufacture of plywood panels.

In all, nearly 3,500 events are listed this year on the Industry Week website, including 77 in the wood industry. 

For more information: site de la semaine de l’industrie

LOGIFOR, a subsidiary of the THEBAULT Group, celebrates its 15th anniversary at FOREXPO, in the presence of Alain ROUSSET

LOGIFOR, a forestry subsidiary, is celebrating its 15th anniversary in the presence of Alain Rousset, President of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, at the Forexpo exhibition in Mimizan (40).

Logofir fete ses 15 ans
De G à D : Henri-Jean THEBAULT – Jean-Charles THEBAULT – Alain ROUSSET – Michel GRAVOUIL – Jean-Pascal ARCHIMBAUD – Bruno PATROUILLAULT – Antoine THEBAULT
Logifor fête ses 15 ans durant Forexpo 2021

LOGIFOR was created following the desire of Jean-Charles THEBAULT and Jean-Pascal ARCHIMBAUD to secure part of their supplies of maritime pine for their industrial wood processing activities. The meeting with Michel GRAVOUIL allowed its creation on the site of Bussac-Forêt (17).

LOGIFOR is in charge of part of the maritime pine purchases for the peeling sites of Solférino (40) and Sauzé-Vaussais (79). It specialises in the exploitation of maritime pine plots. It handles either standing timber and subcontracts forestry work such as thinning or final cutting, or timber already cut on the roadside.

► More about LOGIFOR

Bois Déroulés de Champagne receives the LANLY trophy

Remise trophée lanly 2020
Presentation of the lanly 2020 trophy

The THEBAUL Group’s subsidiary, Bois Déroulés de Champagne, receives the 2020 edition of the LANLY trophy from Jean-Paul LANLY.  

Specialising in poplar peeling in the Grand-Est region, Bois Déroulés de Champagne enables its two partners, the THEBAULT Group and DROUIN, to combine their financial efforts and their technical knowledge to secure their supplies and thus perpetuate their family businesses in the primary processing of wood.

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International Forest Day 2019

Within the framework of the International Forest Day 2019 and its pedagogical component ”The Forest invites itself to school”, 6th grade students from the Felix Arnaudin secondary school in Labouheyre (40) discovered the primary wood processing industry with visits to the production sites of the THEBAULT Group and the ARCHIMBAUD Sawmill, partners in this event. Cette journée s’inscrit dans un programme pédagogique dont l’objectif était d’inviter les élèves à mieux comprendre le lien entre les produits à base de bois de leur quotidien, et l’environnement naturel dont ils sont issus qu’est la forêt des Landes.

The THEBAULT Group partners with BaityKool in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

PODIUM in competitions: 1st prize “SUSTAINABILITY” and 3rd prize “ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION

Carried in the containers and the project of the only French team competing in the Solar Décathlon architecture competition, THEBAULT Group plywood will be present in the house of the future of the BaityKool project.  A negative energy consumption house in Dubai, the house presented in this architecture and engineering competition must solve the difficult equation of an indoor temperature of 21 to 25°C in an outdoor environment of almost 50°C during the day and 30°C at night.

AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Created at the initiative of the US Department of Energy in 2002, the Solar Decathlon is a biennial international architecture, design, urban planning and engineering competition {{whose aim is to develop innovation and research in the field of renewable energies, in particular passive housing, bioclimatic and solar energy.

The 2018 edition of the Solar Decathlon, to be held in Dubai from 14 to 29 November, aims to design sustainable solar homes in the Middle East and to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge in order to raise public awareness and demonstrate that passive houses can be affordable, attractive andconfortables. Le défi proposé aux universités du monde entier est de concevoir, dans un cadre académique, et sur une période de deux années, un prototype allant jusqu’à 100 m2 en utilisant le soleil comme unique source d’énergie. Le prototype sera ensuite construit en deux semaines et testé pendant les deux semaines du concours. Le projet BaityKool est le seul à concourir pour la France pour tenter de remporter le Solar Decathlon Middle East 2018 qui mettra au défi 21 équipes internationales sur différentes épreuves d’architecture et d’ingénierie.

THE BAITYKOOL PROJECT

BaityKool (de “baity” : maison et “kool/cool” : fraîche) est un projet d’habitat du futur, innovant et écologique, créé par une équipe d’étudiants de l’Université et de l’École d’architecture de Bordeaux, l’École des Arts et Métiers, et des universités de Palestine et des Émirats arabes unis . As a partner in this exceptional project, the THEBAULT Group is contributing and supporting the BaityKool team by supplying plywood in the three species of Maritime Pine, Poplar and Okoumé.

MORE THAN A HOME, A CONCEPT

BaityKool’s bioclimatic}} architecture respects the climate and local traditions. At night, the removable roof and open windows allow you to take advantage of the prevailing winds and ventilate, or even cool if conditions permit, the interior of the building. The skin of the BaityKool building is a contemporary fibre concrete moucharabieh that incorporates solar panels to maximize energy production from sunrise to sunset. The walls are composed of multi-layer walls to optimize the thermal efficiency of the envelope (floor, wall and roof). • Protected from the sun by a pergola, the plant core in the centre of the building has a self-contained, continuous and closed aquaponics* system, which enables fish to be reared and 300 kg of fruit and vegetables to be produced per year in vertical culture, equivalent to the annual consumption of a family of 4 people. • Water recycling is also ensured in the building. A lombrifilter allows the ecological filtration of grey and black water, associated with a Solar Bio Purification system that transforms the residues of undissolved matter into biomass thanks to UV light, then reused as fertilizer for watering plants. *aquaponia: a system that unites plant cultivation and fish farming.

BAITYKOOL PARTNER

Retained for their aesthetic and technical quality, the THEBAULT Group’s plywoods support the BaityKool project, with the supply of panels in the three species for the manufacture of the structures and the finishing of the interior walls.

In figures :

  • 150 m² of TeboPly Okoumé plywood Exterior
  • 400 m² of TeboPlus Poplar plywood
  • 400 m² TeboPin plywood in Maritime Pine

Go further: • Presentation of the BaityKool project and the team • Discover the Solar Decathlon in Dubai, United Arab Emirates