Tool resultIn scope
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Open reference recordRequest supplier evidence
Collect production plot geolocation, legality evidence, and deforestation-free support.
cocoa and cocoa preparations
Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, containing >= 5% but < 65% by weight of sucrose, incl. inverted sugar expressed as sucrose or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
Covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation. Collect production plot geolocation, legality evidence, and deforestation-free support.
Code 18061020Verdict Likely in scopeCommodity CocoaAnnex I 1806CN 2026
What the checker used.
Product nameCocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, containing >= 5% but < 65% by weight of sucrose, incl. inverted sugar expressed as sucrose or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
Code pathCOCOA AND COCOA PREPARATIONS
Annex I matchChocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
BasisRegulation (EU) 2023/1115 Annex I and CN 2026 index
Use the result, then move on.
- 01Confirm the product description with the importer or supplier.
- 02Ask for country of production and plot geolocation before any filing workflow.
- 03Collect legality and deforestation-free support documents for the shipment file.
Product facts can still change the answer.
Is the product made entirely from material that has completed its lifecycle and would otherwise be discarded as waste?If yes: out of scope
By-products of a manufacturing process do not benefit from this exception — if the process used material that was not waste, the product stays in scope.
Annex I introductory paragraph; Directive 2008/98/EC Art. 3(1)Is it a sample of negligible value and quantity used only to solicit orders, or a product sent for examination or testing that is used up, destroyed or returned?If yes: out of scopeDelegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102, Annex (5), table note to 'Relevant products'
Supplier evidence starts after scope.
Collect production plot geolocation, legality evidence, and deforestation-free support.
- Product description
- Quantity
- Country of production
- Geolocation
- Supplier information
- Legality evidence
- Deforestation-free evidence