EU Deforestation Regulation: due diligence applies for micro and small enterprises
248 days from today
Date note: 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.
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What changes
Micro and small companies dealing in the EUDR commodities (cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, wood and derived products) get six extra months. Small downstream traders mainly need to collect and pass on upstream due diligence reference numbers; small primary producers in low-risk countries file a simplified declaration.
What has changed here
Postponed — 30 June 2027 Basis: Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 (23 December 2025) Recorded 8 September 2026
Who is affected
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.
Sizes: micro, small · Sectors: Agriculture / food, Manufacturing, Retail, E-commerce, Hospitality / tourism · Applies if: We import goods into the EU; We export outside the EU
What to do
Check whether your products are listed in EUDR Annex I. Ask suppliers for their due diligence statement reference numbers and keep them for five years. If you import directly, register in the EU Information System and prepare geolocation and legality evidence.
Penalty
Fines of at least 4% of EU turnover, confiscation of goods, exclusion from public procurement
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.
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.