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02 - FORESTRY AND LOGGING Companies in Netherlands

Approximately 2,643 real businesses classified under 02 - Forestry and logging in Netherlands, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.

SBI 2008 02
Sector Overview — Netherlands

Approximately 2,643 real businesses classified under 02 - Forestry and logging operate in Netherlands. Covers companies officially classified under SBI 2008 code 02 (Forestry and logging), part of Netherlands' SBI 2008 classification of economic activities. This division is one of the sub-sectors making up the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector. Ownership, beneficial-ownership disclosure and company-registration rules for businesses under this specific activity code follow the same general framework that applies across Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in Netherlands.

Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Netherlands follow the same national framework as every other sector there.

Full Netherlands beneficial ownership overview

Top 02 - Forestry and logging Companies in Netherlands

Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.

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Data Coverage

Record counts for SIC Code A in Netherlands, as of the last reconciliation.

171,553
Total Companies
88,698
Currently Active
52%

Section A is 2% of the Netherlands register by entity count and its 14th largest sector — see all sectors.

Analysis

What this data actually tells you

Agriculture looks straightforward to verify in the Netherlands and often isn’t. The most common structure for a family farm is the maatschap, a partnership with no separate legal personality at all — its partners (maten) are liable only for an equal share of the partnership’s debts, not jointly and severally, and formation requires no minimum starting capital, just a contribution of money, goods or labour from each partner. A maatschap can operate publicly under a joint trade name or stay undisclosed, and either way its ownership sits with the individual partners rather than the farming operation itself.

The sector is also in the middle of a large, government-funded restructuring: the Dutch government has spent €1.81 billion buying out 723 livestock farms under a voluntary nitrogen-reduction scheme, opened to the roughly 3,000 farms depositing the most nitrogen on nearby Natura 2000 nature reserves — a real transaction history worth checking when verifying whether a specific farm is still an active operator or has already exited under the scheme. Separately, legislation is in progress to merge the maatschap and VOF partnership forms into a single ‘vennootschap’ structure that, unlike today’s maatschap, would be able to hold legal personality of its own — a structural change worth tracking for how it will affect ownership verification.

What changed recently

Sector-specific developments that change how this data is used. Each carries a verification date so it can be refreshed on a schedule.

The EU deforestation rules apply from 30 December 2026

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires operators placing cattle, wood, cocoa, coffee, palm oil or soya on the EU market to prove their supply chains are deforestation-free. After two postponements — originally due 30 December 2024, then pushed to 30 December 2025 — the Council of the EU adopted a further revision in December 2025 moving the application date for all operators to 30 December 2026, with an additional six-month allowance for micro and small operators to 30 June 2027. For Netherlands operators and exporters supplying the EU market, this is now the operative compliance deadline.

Source: Council of the EU, 18 December 2025 · Last verified 8 October 2026.

Netherlands Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing, by the register

Charts render from live counts. Modules are suppressed where coverage is too thin to be meaningful.

Entities by sub-sector

01 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities
166,498
02 Forestry and logging
2,643
03 Fishing and aquaculture
2,908

SIC division level, live from official registries.

Active vs. inactive

52% active

Section A entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.

Company size, by disclosed headcount

0
26,031
1-9
141,148
10-49
3,863
50+
455

By number of employees on file, Section A, Netherlands. 56 entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.

Who uses Netherlands agriculture, forestry and fishing ownership data

The three checks this sector's data is most often run for.

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EUDR supply-chain due diligence

Proving a Dutch wood, soy-feed or cattle supplier is who they claim to be, upstream of the first EU-bound trader, before the December 2026 deadline. Many Dutch farms operate as a maatschap, a partnership with no separate legal personality, making ownership resolution harder than for a registered BV.

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Nitrogen buyout scheme participation check

The Dutch government spent €1.81 billion buying out 723 livestock farms under its nitrogen-reduction scheme, opened to the roughly 3,000 farms with the highest nitrogen deposition on Natura 2000 nature reserves — a real, checkable transaction history relevant to whether a farm is still operating or has actually exited.

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Agri-lending and input credit

A maatschap has no separate legal personality and its partners are liable only for an equal share of its debts (not jointly and severally) — a structural feature that changes how lenders and input suppliers actually assess exposure compared to a BV-structured operation.

Sub-sectors within Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing

SIC divisions inside this section, each with its own Netherlands company directory.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many companies are classified under 02 - Forestry and logging in Netherlands?

Approximately 2,643 businesses are classified under 02 - Forestry and logging in Netherlands.

What does SBI 2008 code 02 cover?

02 - Forestry and logging is the official name for this activity under Netherlands' SBI 2008 classification of economic activities. It is a sub-category within the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector.

How is this different from the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing category?

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing is the top-level sector; SBI 2008 code 02 identifies one specific activity within it, letting you narrow a search to exactly this business type rather than the whole sector.

What ownership information is available for these companies?

The same beneficial-ownership, shareholder and officer disclosure framework applies as for any other company in Netherlands, regardless of its specific activity classification. See the individual company profile for the full ownership picture, or the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector overview for the general national framework.

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