EUDR FAQ: answers to the most common questions

It is Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation. It requires that coffee, cocoa, oil palm, soya, rubber, wood, cattle and the derived products listed in its Annex I may only be sold in the European Union or exported from it if they do not come from land deforested after 31 December 2020, were produced legally and are covered by a due diligence statement.

From 30 December 2026 for large and medium-sized operators, and from 30 June 2027 for micro and small enterprises, under Regulation (EU) 2025/2650. The products added by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102, such as soluble coffee, are required from 30 December 2027.

As of September 2026 there is no proposal to that effect: the review the European Commission presented on 4 May 2026 kept the dates and did not propose changes to the regulation. We follow the topic in the delay timeline.

Seven commodities (cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood) and the products made from them that are listed in Annex I, each with its HS code: for example coffee (0901), cocoa beans (1801) or chocolate (1806). If a product is not in Annex I, the EUDR does not apply to it. Full list: EUDR Annex I.

That the commodity was produced on land that was not deforested after 31 December 2020. For the regulation, deforestation means converting forest to agricultural use. If the plot was already farmland on that date, there is no deforestation even if it has shade trees today: agroforestry systems count as agricultural plantations, not forest.

For plots of up to 4 hectares, one point with at least six decimal places is enough. If the plot is larger than 4 hectares, a polygon with its full perimeter is needed. The coordinates are uploaded to the EU system in GeoJSON format.

Yes, as long as the statement includes the geolocation of every plot the product came from. What is not allowed is mixing it with product of unknown origin: the European Commission makes clear that mass balance is not accepted. If a plot does not comply, its production has to be left out of the shipment.

The legal obligation lies with the operator that first places the product on the EU market, usually the importer: it submits the due diligence statement and is accountable to its authority. The regulation imposes no direct obligations on producers outside the EU, but without their data the importer cannot file.

The geolocation of every plot, the date or period of harvest, which plots and what quantities go into each shipment, evidence that there was no deforestation after 31 December 2020, and the proof of legality required by Peruvian law, such as land tenure.

In the EUDR information system, which runs inside TRACES, the European Commission's platform. The operator signs in with EU Login and registers with its company details and EORI number. Step by step: the EUDR due diligence statement (DDS) in TRACES.

If it manufactures or sells products made from commodities already covered by a statement, it is a downstream operator and, since the December 2025 reform, does not file another statement. It keeps records of its suppliers and customers and, if it is not an SME, registers in the information system.

Peru is classified as a standard-risk country in the European Commission's classification (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1093). That means full due diligence: gathering the information, assessing the risk and mitigating it when it is not negligible. Each year, the authorities must check at least 3% of the operators placing products from standard-risk countries on the market. The simplified declaration only exists for micro and small primary operators in low-risk countries.

No. Information from certification and other third-party verified schemes can be used in the risk assessment, but it does not replace the operator's due diligence. Geolocation of every plot is still mandatory.

Each Member State sets them, but they must include fines with a maximum of at least 4% of the company's annual EU turnover, confiscation of the products and of the revenue gained from them, exclusion from public contracts and public funding for up to 12 months and, for serious or repeated infringements, a temporary ban on selling or exporting those products.

Five years. The operator keeps the information and evidence for each product and a record of its statements for that period, and must hand them to the authority on request.