Scope
Operators and traders placing/exporting cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya, wood and derived products on the EU market
EU · regulation
EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650
Phasing inApplies 2026-12-30
Penalties
Fines of at least 4% of EU turnover; confiscation of products/revenues; temporary market exclusion
Last verified
2026-08-22
In plain language
What this law does
Bans placing or exporting covered commodities/products unless deforestation-free, produced legally, and covered by a due-diligence statement. Post-2025/2650, the DDS duty sits with the first operator placing the product on the market; downstream actors keep reference numbers; micro/small operators file a simplified declaration and may use postal addresses instead of geolocation points.
Core obligations
Due-diligence statement via the information system; geolocation of all plots of land (polygons for plots >4 ha); deforestation-free verification (cut-off 31 Dec 2020); legality in country of production; risk assessment against country benchmarking; risk mitigation; annual public reporting
Dictionary
Terms defined in this law
- Placing on the market* (2(18))EUDR
- Making available on the market* (2(19))EUDR
- Relevant commodities* (2(1))EUDR
- Relevant products* (2(2))EUDR
- Deforestation* (2(3))EUDR
- Forest* (2(4))EUDR
- Deforestation-free* (2(13))EUDR
- Forest degradation* (2(7))EUDR
- Operator* (2(15))EUDR
- Trader* (2(17))EUDR
- SME / micro, small or medium enterpriseEUDR
- Geolocation* (2(28))EUDR
- Plot of land* (2(29))EUDR
- Due diligence statement (DDS)* (2(33))EUDR
- Negligible risk* (2(26))EUDR
- Substantiated concern* (2(31))EUDR
- Checks* / *country benchmarkingEUDR
- Relevant legislation of the country of production* (2(40))EUDR
- Art. 9 information requirementsEUDR
- Art. 10 risk assessment criteriaEUDR
- Art. 11 risk mitigationEUDR
- Art. 12 due-diligence system requirementsEUDR
- Art. 13 simplified due diligence (low-risk countries)EUDR
- Information SystemEUDR
- Art. 32 annual public reporting on due-diligence systemsEUDR
- Minimum annual checks by competent authoritiesEUDR
- Penalties (Art. 25)EUDR
- Customs controlsEUDR
- Applies 30 Dec 2026 (large/medium) / 30 Jun 2027 (micro/small); Commission May 2026 package: no further delay, ~75% burden cut; legality repository due Dec 2026EUDR
Claims
Claims connected to this source
- Deforestation-free
- Sustainably sourced timber
- Sustainable palm oil
- Responsibly sourced cocoa/coffee
- Palm-oil-free
- Rainforest-friendly
- Deforestation-free cocoa” / “deforestation-free coffee
- Fully traceable to farm
- No deforestation across primary commodities by end-2025
- 96.7% of primary supply chains assessed as deforestation-free