EUDR

EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation, regulation EU 2023/1115) prohibits placing on the European market products derived from deforestation or contributing to forest degradation. It replaces the 2010 EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) by considerably broadening its scope.

Seven products are covered: coffee, cocoa, wood, soy, palm oil, rubber, cattle. And all their derivatives: chocolate, furniture, paper, leather, beef, tyres, etc. For each batch, the operator must produce a Due Diligence Statement (DDS) attesting that the product does not come from a zone deforested after 31 December 2020.

The required traceability goes down to the agricultural or forestry plot, with GPS coordinates. The DDS is filed on the European Commission's TRACES NT portal, which assigns a DDS-ID to be passed along the supply chain.

Two categories of operators are concerned:

• Operators: those who first place a covered product on the EU market (importers, manufacturers using imported products). They produce the DDS.
• Traders: those who resell down the chain. They must collect and archive upstream-supplier DDS-IDs and present them under audit.

SMEs (≤ 250 employees and ≤ €50m revenue) benefit from lighter obligations: they can reuse an upstream DDS-ID without generating a new one for their own activity, provided they trace it.

• 30 December 2025: application to large companies (>250 employees or >€50m revenue).
• 30 June 2026: application to SMEs and micro-businesses.
• Review planned in 2028 to consider extension to other products or ecosystems (savannas, grasslands).

Sanctions, set by each member state, are framed by the regulation: fine of at least 4% of annual EU revenue for the most serious offenses, confiscation of products and revenue, temporary exclusion from public tenders and EU aid, withdrawal of authorizations.

In France, transposition designates DGCCRF as the control authority, with customs coordination for border operations. A fraud surfacing (a plot declared non-deforested turning out to be deforested) can implicate the entire supply chain.

Industrialization rests on three software capabilities:

• Product catalogue with native EUDR marking: each reference knows whether it is in scope, its upstream supplier, and the associated DDS-ID.
• Bidirectional TRACES NT connector: API retrieval of supplier DDS-IDs, generation of operator DDSs, upstream/downstream chaining.
• Satellite plot verification via Hansen Global Forest Change or GLAD alerts, with alert before customs declaration if a plot tips into a deforested zone.