Turkish Furniture Index
Rule
REACH Annex XVII, entry 77
Instrument
Commission Reg. (EU) 2023/1464
Limit
0.062 mg/m³
In force
6 August 2026
Binds
Whoever places the article on the EU market
Exporting to the EU
4,781 firms

The EU formaldehyde limit for furniture, in force since 6 August 2026

Furniture put on the EU market after 6 August 2026 must not give off more than 0.062 mg of formaldehyde per cubic metre of air in a test chamber. The limit sits on the finished article, not on the board it was built from. That is the part most supplier paperwork gets wrong.

What the rule says

Entry 77 of Annex XVII to REACH was added by Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1464 of 14 July 2023. The operative words are short.

Shall not be placed on the market in articles, after 6 August 2026, if, under the test conditions specified in Appendix 14, the concentration of formaldehyde released from those articles exceeds: (a) 0,062 mg/m³ for furniture and wood-based articles; (b) 0,080 mg/m³ for articles other than furniture and wood-based articles.

Annex XVII, entry 77, paragraph 1

The date has passed. Car interiors get one more year: the same 0.062 figure applies to road vehicles placed on the market after 6 August 2027.

“Placed on the market” is the trigger, and it names the importer, not the factory. For a container leaving Türkiye, the person who has to hold the answer is the firm that puts the goods in front of an EU buyer. The measurement it rests on can only come from the maker. That split is the whole practical problem with this entry.

The ten things it does not cover

The entry lists ten kinds of article the limit does not reach. If a supplier claims an exemption, it has to be one of these, word for word.

Toys are not on that list. Contract furniture for a hotel is not on it either: guests are the general public, so the industrial-use carve-out does not apply.

How it is measured

Appendix 14 fixes the chamber. The report should read back these conditions.

The loading factor is the line to read twice, because the regulation itself says a panel loading does not fit every product.

This loading factor corresponds to the testing of wood-based panels; for other material or products, if such a loading factor is clearly not realistic under foreseeable conditions of use, loading factors in accordance with Section 4.2.2 of EN 16516 may be used.

Appendix 14, paragraph 1(c)

One square metre of surface in one cubic metre of air is a panel test. An armchair is not a panel. A report on an armchair should say which loading factor was used, and why.

What a buyer can ask for

Asking is the buyer’s job; this page says what to ask for.

An E1 board certificate answers a different question

E1 is a board-level convention. It describes a panel. Entry 77 is a limit on the assembled article, measured in air. A mill certificate travels with the board and stops there — it says nothing about what a finished wardrobe releases once glue, edging, lacquer and a back panel have been added to it.

The United States runs a third document again: 40 CFR 770.10 sets panel limits by product type and is evidenced by mill certificates. Three regimes, three measurements, three pieces of paper. A supplier who answers all three with one certificate has answered one of them at best.

Who this reaches4,781

4,781 of the 8,923 Turkish exporters in this index sell into at least one EU market — the population entry 77 reaches.

Counted across 26 EU member states. Northern Cyprus (1,090 firms) is not counted: it sits outside the EU customs territory.

Where the evidence chain starts212

Entry 77 measures the article, so it reaches all 4,781 of them. But the formaldehyde arrives in the glue, and the glue arrives with the board. Of the firms exporting to EU markets, 212 are veneer, timber or panel firms by their legal name — the trades a chamber result has to be argued back to.

Read that as a floor: a firm can cut veneer and never say so in its name.

With a company page59

Other board and veneer firms exporting to the EU153

The other rules on the same firms

Sources2

Each link goes to the text the fact above was read from. Opened and read on 7 September 2026.

  1. Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1464 of 14 July 2023 — full text and Appendix 14 The limits, the date, the ten exemptions and the chamber conditions. Every figure on this page is quoted from it.
  2. 40 CFR 770.10 — United States, formaldehyde in composite wood The separate US panel rule, named here only so nobody treats one document as answering both.

Nothing on this page is legal advice.

The other rules5