EU Deforestation Regulation: due diligence applies for large and medium operators and traders
66 days from today
Date note: Postponed twice; latest by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 (OJ 2025-12-23) from 2025-12-30 to 2026-12-30. Tag scoping clarified 2026-09-08: sectors/flags cannot express 'only these 7 commodities' in this dataset's tag vocabulary, so a general importer/exporter in the listed sectors can still match by tags alone — read whoIsAffected below to check whether your actual goods are covered before treating this as applicable.
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What changes
Companies placing cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy or wood (and derived products such as furniture, paper, leather, chocolate, tyres) on the EU market or exporting them must prove the goods are deforestation-free and legally produced, with geolocation of plots, and file a due diligence statement in the EU information system.
What has changed here
Postponed — 30 December 2025 → 30 December 2026 Basis: Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 (23 December 2025) Recorded 8 September 2026
Who is affected
ONLY medium and large importers, manufacturers, traders and exporters that actually deal in EUDR Annex I commodities and their derived products: cattle (incl. leather), cocoa (incl. chocolate), coffee, palm oil, rubber (incl. tyres), soy, and wood (incl. furniture, paper, printed products). This does NOT cover general consumer goods, electronics, textiles or other imports/exports outside that Annex I list — e.g. a general e-commerce importer of unrelated goods is out of scope even though the sector/flag tags below cannot fully exclude that profile.
Sizes: medium, large · Sectors: Agriculture / food, Manufacturing, Retail, E-commerce, Construction · Applies if: We import goods into the EU; We export outside the EU
What to do
Map which SKUs fall under the EUDR annex. Collect supplier geolocation data and legality evidence, run a risk assessment per country of origin, and register in the EU Information System to submit due diligence statements. Downstream traders can reference upstream statement numbers.
Penalty
Fines of at least 4% of EU turnover, confiscation of goods and revenues, temporary exclusion from public procurement
Postponed by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650; micro/small primary operators in low-risk countries only file a one-off simplified declaration. Tag scoping clarified 2026-09-08: sectors/flags cannot express 'only these 7 commodities' in this dataset's tag vocabulary, so a general importer in the listed sectors can still match by tags alone — read whoIsAffected below to check whether your actual goods are covered before treating this as applicable.
ONLY micro and small importers, wood and furniture makers, coffee roasters, chocolate makers, printers and retailers that actually deal in EUDR Annex I commodities and their derived products: cattle (incl. leather), cocoa (incl. chocolate), coffee, palm oil, rubber (incl. tyres), soy, and wood (incl. furniture, paper, printed products). This does NOT cover general consumer goods, electronics, textiles or other imports/exports outside that Annex I list — e.g. a general e-commerce importer of unrelated goods (even one that also imports batteries) is out of scope even though the sector/flag tags below cannot fully exclude that profile.