A planted forest that is intensively managed with one or two species, even age class, and regular spacing, subject to EUDR exclusions.
Plantation forest is a forest-type classification, not a generic tree-planting label. It helps distinguish managed planted forests from primary forests and from agricultural production systems that may also contain trees.
EUDR Article 2 defines plantation forest as a planted forest that is intensively managed and meets the one-or-two species, even-age-class, and regular-spacing criteria at planting and stand maturity. It includes short-rotation plantations for wood, fibre, and energy, but excludes protection, ecosystem restoration, and restoration-like planted forests.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
a planted forest that is intensively managed and meets, at planting and stand maturity, all the following criteria: one or two species, even age class, and regular spacing; it includes short rotation plantations for wood, fibre and energy, and excludes forests planted for protection or ecosystem restoration, as well as forests established through planting or seeding, which at stand maturity resemble or will resemble naturally regenerating forests;
Reference: Article 2, point 11
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with EUDR forest/production-boundary policy: separates land-cover thresholds, forest-type classifications, production-location evidence, product compliance status, and actor-scope identity.
Implementation records should capture forest-type record, species composition, establishment date, plot boundary, planting evidence, management regime, age-class information, structural-diversity notes, and source date.
Plantation forest is the forest-type classification control for EUDR land evidence. It should connect plot boundaries, species/age evidence, establishment history, and management records so a planted forest is not confused with primary forest or agricultural plantation.