The certification body is talking with a number of companies and a spokesman said this may lead to introducing a continuing testing service in support of due diligence under the regulation.
The companies would sign up to a pre-agreed amount of product analysis during a specific period, which would allow BM TRADA to provide a more structured bulk basis that would be more cost effective.
The service would be confidential and could extent to glueline quality testing. “It would be geared to the requirements of the industry and the growing regulatory pressures they are facing,” said BM TRADA technical business development manager Andrew Pitman.
The body already evaluates plywood on a case-by-case basis, but believes the increased need for testing under EUTR requires a new ongoing service.
The National Measurement Office is reported to be focusing on plywood as a high risk because species can be difficult to identify and verify visually to the degree required by the regulation.
