Identify the relevant product, commodity, trade description, quantity, and HS/CN context before asking suppliers for evidence.
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The importer’s practical map of the EU Deforestation Regulation.
EUDR requires relevant commodities and products placed on or exported from the EU market to be deforestation-free, legally produced, and supported by due diligence evidence before filing.
Relevant commoditiesCattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy, wood
Main testScope, origin, geolocation, evidence, filing readiness
Important boundaryCountry risk is not an exemption by itself
For an importer, EUDR is a preparation workflow before the product moves.
The practical question is not only whether a shipment contains cocoa, coffee, wood, rubber, cattle, soy, or palm. The importer also needs the right product code, production country, supplier evidence, production plot geolocation, and a clean internal file before any official due diligence statement or simplified declaration is submitted.
The current preparation dates.
29 Jun 2023Regulation entered into force
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 became the legal basis for deforestation-free products.
30 Dec 2026Large and medium operators
Main EUDR obligations start applying to large and medium operators, and to EUTR-covered micro and small operators.
30 Jun 2027Most micro and small operators
Most micro and small operators get the later application date under the amended timetable.
Most useful preparation work happens before TRACES.
Collect plot coordinates for the land where the relevant commodity was produced. Missing geolocation blocks the preparation workflow.
Support that the commodity was produced in accordance with the relevant laws of the country of production.
Prepare evidence that the product is not linked to deforestation or forest degradation after the regulatory cut-off date.
Risk classification changes the route, not the need to understand the product.
Low risk
May allow simplified due diligence if the origin and mixing conditions are met. Article 9 information collection still matters.
Standard risk
The default classification. Operators should expect the normal due diligence sequence and supplier evidence workflow.
High risk
Triggers stronger scrutiny and a higher preparation burden. Country risk does not replace product-level evidence.
Use the public tools for narrow checks, not official submission.
HS ScopeCheck whether an HS or CN code is likely in EUDR scope and what supplier evidence may be needed before filing in TRACES.GeoLabDraw, import, and repair supplier plots in Map Studio — GeoJSON, KML, KMZ, Shapefile, GPX, GML, WKT, CSV, and Excel in; Commission GeoJSON v1.5 out.Country RiskOfficial EU benchmarking class for every production country — with the obligations, legality evidence and manual filing steps specific to that origin.