EUDR Compliance Services
Practical support for every stage of EUDR compliance.
EUDR Compliance Services
The EU Deforestation Regulation makes you prove where your raw materials were grown. If you place coffee, cocoa, soy, palm oil, cattle products, rubber or wood on the EU market — or anything derived from them, from chocolate to furniture to tyres to paper — you need the geolocation of every plot of land involved, evidence that production was legal in its country of origin, and proof that no forest was cleared there after 31 December 2020.
The hard part of EUDR compliance is not the paperwork. It is getting that data out of suppliers who sit several tiers away, in another country, and owe you nothing beyond a contract. That is the work we do.
Current Status of EUDR
The current legislative position of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) →
Has EUDR been postponed again?
No — and the Commission has said there will be no further delay. The EUDR was postponed twice, which has left a great deal of confusion and a great deal of out-of-date advice online. The position as of July 2026 is settled. The European Commission confirmed the timeline in its simplification package of 4 May 2026 and stated explicitly that there would be no additional postponement.
Large and medium companies comply from 30 December 2026. Micro and small companies from 30 June 2027. If your plan has been to wait for another delay, this is the point at which waiting stops being a strategy — most of the work is supplier engagement, and suppliers take months, not weeks, to respond.
Does the EUDR apply to you?
Two questions. If you answer yes to both, the regulation touches you.
- Do you place on the EU market, or export from it, any of the seven regulated commodities or a product derived from them?
- Is your company established in the EU, or selling into it?
How much work does it mean?
Being in scope and carrying a heavy burden are two different things. Two factors decide which one you are facing, and they can differ from one product line to the next.
Your role. Only operators — those placing goods on the EU market for the first time, or exporting them — file a Due Diligence Statement. Downstream operators and traders register in the EU information system and keep records, but no longer file their own. That narrowing was introduced by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 and it takes a large number of companies out of the heaviest obligations altogether.
Your origins. Sourcing from a country classified as low risk means you still collect the information and the plot geolocation, but you skip formal risk assessment and mitigation. Sourcing from a standard-risk country means the full process. Most tropical commodity chains sit in the standard-risk tier.
Establishing both, product line by product line, is the first thing we do — and for a meaningful number of companies it is the last, because the honest answer is that their obligations are minimal.
What non-compliance costs
Penalties start at 4% of your annual EU-wide turnover. Alongside that: confiscation of the goods and of the revenues derived from them, exclusion from public procurement and public funding, and — the one that actually stops a business — goods held at the border.
Competent authorities must check a minimum proportion of operators every year: 9% for high-risk countries of origin, 3% for standard risk, 1% for low risk. These are floors, not targets.
Key dates for EUDR Compliance
31 December 2020 →
The cut-off. Land cleared after this date makes the commodity non-compliant.
30 December 2026 →
Application begins for large and medium companies, and for micro and small companies in the timber sector.
30 June 2027 →
Application begins for other micro and small companies.
EUDR Compliance Services
1. EUDR Compliance Services
Which of your products and CN codes are in scope under the current rules, whether you act as an operator, a downstream operator or a trader for each flow, which of your origins carry the full due diligence burden and which do not, and how far your existing data sits from what a Due Diligence Statement requires. You get a gap report and a prioritised roadmap.
2. Due diligence system setup
The regulation asks for a documented system, reviewed at least annually — not a one-off check. We build the information collection procedures, supplier questionnaires, risk assessment methodology, mitigation protocols, governance and record-keeping rules, and get you onboarded to the EU information system.
3. Supplier onboarding and deforestation screening
The heart of it, and where most programmes stall. Plot geolocation collected from your suppliers and remediated — invalid geometry corrected, overlaps and duplicates resolved, formats standardised — then screened against satellite land cover back to the December 2020 cut-off. Legality evidence assembled across the full scope the regulation defines, and a risk-scored evidence file per supplier. Our team engages your suppliers directly rather than sending a form and waiting.
4. DDS preparation and filing support
We assemble your Due Diligence Statements, validate them against the technical requirements of the EU system before submission, and support your team through filing. We manage reference numbers through to your customs broker, and archive the evidence for the five-year retention period.
5. Annual monitoring
Satellite alerts on your registered plots, annual supplier risk review, tracking of changes to the Commission’s country benchmarking and to the regulation itself, and the annual system review the rules require.
6. Training
Practical training so your own teams can understand the regulation and run it themselves — not stay dependent on us. What the rules actually require, how they map to your products and flows, how to brief and chase suppliers, how to read and sanity-check geolocation data, and what you need to hold on file and for how long. For procurement, quality, customs, legal and sustainability teams. Multilingual.
7. Evidence for your sustainability reporting
Le origin, land use and supplier legality data assembled for the EUDR is the same evidence your CSRD or VSME disclosures on deforestation and land use require. We structure it once so it serves both, rather than having it gathered twice by two teams who never speak.
8. Downstream essentials
A focused package for downstream operators and traders, whose obligations narrowed considerably under Regulation (EU) 2025/2650. Establishing exactly what you must hold, and what you no longer have to do, is usually the whole engagement.
9. Urgent situations
A shipment held at customs over a reference number. A Due Diligence Statement rejected by the system. A competent authority notification. A customer refusing your documentation. Our first job is to tell you whether you are facing an administrative problem or an evidence problem, because the two are not comparable. Format errors, missing reference numbers and rejected filings are usually correctable quickly. Missing plot data or legality evidence is not — and you need to know which one you are dealing with before you make promises to your customer or your carrier.
10. Exporter readiness
For producers, cooperatives and exporters outside the EU whose European buyers are now demanding plot geolocation and legality evidence. Includes support with the simplified one-off declaration route where you qualify as a micro or small primary operator.
Independent by design. Our job is to build your due diligence system and stand behind the evidence inside it. We hold no certification and issue none. Where accredited third-party verification is genuinely required, we say so and introduce you to a body that provides it — because the firm that builds a system should not be the firm that audits it.
How we work
1. Diagnose. Scope, role, size classification, country risk exposure, data gaps, roadmap.
2. Build. Due diligence system in place, supplier campaign launched, geolocation and legality evidence flowing.
3. File and run. Statements prepared and validated, reference numbers reaching customs, monitoring in place, annual review scheduled.
How long it takes depends almost entirely on your suppliers, not on us. Mapped, responsive suppliers move quickly. Smallholders you have never contacted directly do not. Tell us where you stand when you get in touch and we will give you a realistic view rather than a reassuring one.
Sectors we work with
- Coffee and cocoa
- Palm oil and derivatives
- Natural rubber and tyres
- Soy and animal feed
- Food and beverage manufacturing
- Automotive
- Furniture and wood products
- Cosmetics and personal care
The first four carry the heaviest burden, because they source predominantly from standard-risk origins where the full due diligence process applies.
Not sure whether you are in scope? That is exactly what the readiness assessment answers — and if no further action is required, we’ll make that clear
