EUDR, the EU Deforestation Regulation

The EU Deforestation Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, sets rules for placing certain products on the EU market or exporting them from it. This page sums up the facts that matter for your lots. It is not legal advice: check the official texts and, for your own obligations, a lawyer.

Dates and scope have been amended several times. What follows reflects the texts as of October 2026. The European Commission keeps an up-to-date implementation page.

Which products

Cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood, and the products made from them that are listed in Annex I of the regulation. Whether a product is covered depends on its customs code. In the console, the commodity code of each product decides whether its lots are treated as EUDR lots.

What the regulation asks

Products in scope may be placed on the EU market or exported only if they are:

• deforestation-free: produced on land not deforested after 31 December 2020;
• legal: produced under the relevant laws of the country of production;
• covered by a due diligence statement submitted by the operator in the EU information system.

The due diligence needs the geolocation of every plot where the product was grown: a point for plots up to 4 hectares, a polygon for larger plots (for cattle, the establishments where the animals were kept).

Who must do what

• The operator that first places the product on the EU market, or exports it, carries out due diligence and submits the statement.
• Traders and operators further down pass on the statement references and keep records of suppliers and customers for five years.
• Producers and exporters outside the EU have no direct obligations under the regulation, but their EU customers need their geolocation and legality information to do their due diligence.

The regulation applies from 30 December 2026 for large and medium operators and traders, and from 30 June 2027 for micro and small ones.

The due diligence statement reference

When the operator has submitted the statement, the EU Information System gives it a reference number and a verification number. For products under the EUDR, the console lets you record both on the lot:

• in Register harvest, under EUDR due diligence statement, enter the EUDR due diligence statement reference and, if you have it, the Verification number;
• if the statement is submitted after the harvest, add them later with Correct information on the lot page.

They are written into the lot's information, where buyers find them and the EUDR due diligence statement evidence report fills them in. The console checks only their shape (letters, digits and hyphens); the EU Information System is what confirms them.

How the console helps

• Sites keep each plot's geolocation, encrypted. A lot from a site without geolocation is traceable, and marked as missing the location evidence EUDR asks for. See Farms and plots.
• The certificate type EUDR due diligence statement records a statement's reference number on a lot, and EUDR geolocation check records a check of the plots.
• The EUDR due diligence statement evidence report (companies in the EU) gathers, per lot, what an EU operator needs, and lists what is missing. The Shipment EUDR pack does the same for the lots of one shipment, with their plots as a GeoJSON file the EU Information System imports, and the Origins and plots register lists every farm and plot. See Reports for exporters.
• The EUDR exposure dashboard shows your volume in scope by customs heading and country classification, and the origins still missing a geolocation or a polygon. See Ready-made dashboards.
• Step by step, from sites to the statement reference: Prepare your EUDR evidence.
• Each certificate shows its evidence level, so you can see which facts only your company declared.

The console collects and organises information. It does not decide whether a product complies.