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title: EUDR
description: EUDR is the EU Deforestation Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, which bars listed commodities — including wood, cattle, soy, coffee, cocoa, palm oil and rubber — and products made from them from the EU market unless they are deforestation-free and legal. Operators must run due diligence with geolocation coordinates for every plot of land of origin.
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# EUDR

> EUDR is the EU Deforestation Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, which bars listed commodities — including wood, cattle, soy, coffee, cocoa, palm oil and rubber — and products made from them from the EU market unless they are deforestation-free and legal. Operators must run due diligence with geolocation coordinates for every plot of land of origin.

EUDR is the EU Deforestation Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, which bars listed commodities — including wood, cattle, soy, coffee, cocoa, palm oil and rubber — and products made from them from the EU market unless they are deforestation-free and legal. Operators must run due diligence with geolocation coordinates for every plot of land of origin.

Under EUDR, an operator placing an in-scope commodity or product on the EU market must file a due-diligence statement showing the goods are deforestation-free (not linked to land deforested after 31 December 2020) and produced legally in the country of origin. The defining requirement is geolocation: precise coordinates of every plot of land where the raw material was produced, so the supply chain can be traced to source.

For DPP work, EUDR is most relevant to wood, timber, paper and natural-rubber inputs, and to textiles where leather or natural fibres enter the chain. The geolocation and legality evidence it demands often lives in the same supplier documents a passport draws on, so capturing source-attributed origin data once serves both the EUDR due-diligence file and the product passport. Application dates have been adjusted during roll-out, so confirm the current applicable date for your operator size against the latest EU guidance rather than assuming a fixed cutover.

## FAQ

### Which products does the EUDR cover?

Seven commodities — cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy and wood — plus a list of derived products such as leather, furniture, paper, chocolate and tyres. Wood, paper and natural-rubber inputs are the most common overlap with Digital Product Passport work.

### What is the geolocation requirement?

Operators must record the precise geographic coordinates (and, for larger plots, polygons) of every parcel of land where the commodity was produced, then submit them in a due-diligence statement. It is what lets authorities check the goods against deforestation data for that exact location.

## Related terms

- [Digital Product Passport (DPP)](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/digital-product-passport)
- [Economic operator](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/economic-operator)
- [Source attribution](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/source-attribution)
- [ESPR](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/espr)