Neil Garbutt: So been quite a long lead in to this to allow importers to adjust to the laws. So the due there’s diligence elements have been in for now three years, since the end of November 2014. So I think the answer to that is the laws are now live and now expecting you to do due diligence on we’re regulated products. Nick Housego: Okay. another one. Here’s Q: Is the risk to reasonable or limited assurance as used in term ‘reasonable conclusion’ akin the financial non-financial - - - Neil Garbutt: I think we touched on that one. Nick Housego: Believe it not. amazing picked that up. Go to this one. got so many questions in That’s I’ve We’ve here. Q: Suppliers may not want to divulge proof of purchase. What other options are there? Because protecting their commercial in confidence. they’re Margie Eddington: So you do require certain information in order to be able to conduct a proper risk assessment and reach a conclusion of low risk. So you will need to seek that information. Where your supplier is unwilling to give it to you, there might be a number of risk mitigation options available to you that I spoke about earlier, one of which might be seeking a different supplier for your product or requesting that the products have a chain of custody certification scheme such as Emma went through earlier, the FSC or the PEFC certified product. Nick Housego: Okay. Emma, run through a lot of this stuff fairly quickly today, but getting a sense we’ve I’m – and you being of legal background that the in the detail, and I think truth in that. I – devil’s there’s know that be doing deeper dives on the due diligence process in future webinars, but have we’ll we sorted out for example a date for that next webinar yet?
Neil Garbutt: So there’s been quite a long lead in to this to allow importers to adjust to the laws. So the due diligence elements have been in for now three years, since the end of November 2014. So I think the answer to that is the laws are now live and we’re now expecting you to do due diligence on regulated products. Nick Housego: Okay. Here’s another one. Q: Is the term ‘reasonable risk conclusion’ akin to reasonable or limited assurance as used in the financial non-financial - - - Neil Garbutt: I think we touched on that one. Nick Housego: Believe it not. That’s amazing I’ve picked that up. Go to this one. We’ve got so many questions in here. Q: Suppliers may not want to divulge proof of purchase. What other options are there? Because they’re protecting their commercial in confidence. Margie Eddington: So you do require certain information in order to be able to conduct a proper risk assessment and reach a conclusion of low risk. So you will need to seek that information. Where your supplier is unwilling to give it to you, there might be a number of risk mitigation options available to you that I spoke about earlier, one of which might be seeking a different supplier for your product or requesting that the products have a chain of custody certification scheme such as Emma went through earlier, the FSC or the PEFC certified product. Nick Housego: Okay. Emma, we’ve run through a lot of this stuff fairly quickly today, but I’m getting a sense – and you being of legal background – that the devil’s in the detail, and I think there’s truth in that. I know that we’ll be doing deeper dives on the due diligence process in future webinars, but have we sorted out for example a date for that next webinar yet?
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