{"id":655,"date":"2024-07-05T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=655"},"modified":"2024-07-05T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:06:34","slug":"latvia-corporate-fine-for-import-of-possible-russian-timber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/07\/05\/latvia-corporate-fine-for-import-of-possible-russian-timber\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; corporate fine for import of possible Russian timber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.lsm.lv\/article\/economy\/economy\/05.07.2024-company-fined-eur-10000-for-possible-import-of-russian-wood.a560413\/\">Latvian State Forest Service (VMD)<\/a> has fined a company \u20ac10,000 in relation to timber which\u00a0<em>may<\/em> have been sourced from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The fine was imposed on the basis of the EU&#8217;s Timber Regulation and the failure of the company to properly conduct due diligence on timber that <em>may<\/em> have been Russian in origin which would render the timber as illegally sourced.<\/p>\n<p>It is being reported that the VMD has taken the view that the importer needs to be able to positively exclude the possibility that the timber is of Russian, or Belarusian, origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latvian State Forest Service (VMD) has fined a company \u20ac10,000 in relation to timber which\u00a0may have been sourced from Russia. The fine was imposed on the basis of the EU&#8217;s Timber Regulation and the failure of the company to properly conduct due diligence on timber that may have been Russian in origin which would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/07\/05\/latvia-corporate-fine-for-import-of-possible-russian-timber\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; corporate fine for import of possible Russian timber&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[12,30,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","tag-fine","tag-latvia","tag-russia","tag-trade-sanctions"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}