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Land with high-carbon stock

  • Glossary item | 19 Mar 2025

Land that had one of the following statuses in January 2008 and no longer has that status:

  • wetlands, namely land that is covered with or saturated by water permanently or for a significant part of the year;
  • continuously forested areas, namely land spanning more than one hectare with trees higher than five metres and a canopy cover of more than 30 %, or trees able to reach those thresholds in situ;
  • land spanning more than one hectare with trees higher than five metres and a canopy cover of between 10 % and 30 %, or trees able to reach those thresholds in situ, unless evidence is provided that the carbon stock of the area before and after conversion is such that, when the methodology laid down in Part C of Annex V is applied, the conditions laid down in paragraph 10 of this Article would be fulfilled.
 
 
Source category: EU Legislation
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