A regulatory term referring to forest predominantly composed of trees established through planting and/or deliberate seeding.
Planted forest is part of the formal vocabulary used in traceability, origin evidence, and deforestation-related due diligence. For this glossary, the key point is understanding how the source defines the term and where that definition sits within broader compliance or data requirements.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
forest predominantly composed of trees established through planting and/or deliberate seeding, provided that the planted or seeded trees are expected to constitute more than 50 % of the growing stock at maturity; it includes coppice from trees that were originally planted or seeded;
Reference: Article 2, point 10
In practice, this term matters when companies collect, structure, verify, or communicate sustainability data within traceability, origin evidence, and deforestation-related due diligence.
For Minespider, planted forest is not just descriptive language. It is a modeling term that affects how sustainability, emissions, lifecycle, or product information should be captured and compared.