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EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR): Enforcement

The EU Deforestation Regulation (2023/1115) is in full enforcement, and it's already reshaping global supply chains. If you deal in cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya, or wood, you need a Due Diligence Statement for every shipment — backed by geolocation coordinates down to the plot level. No exceptions, no phase-ins for small operators.

Most companies underestimate how hard the geolocation requirement is. Your supplier in Côte d'Ivoire needs to provide plot-level GPS coordinates that match satellite imagery. If they can't, your shipment doesn't clear customs.

EUDR Compliance Software: Deforestation-Free DD

EUDR is the regulation that forces you to know exactly where every raw material came from — down to the GPS coordinates of the production plot. If you're importing cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soya, or wood into the EU, you need geolocation data, legal compliance proof, and risk assessments for every shipment. Not per supplier. Per shipment.

What most companies underestimate: it's not the big growers with mapped plantations that cause the problem. It's the thousands of smallholder farmers who don't have GPS devices. EUDR compliance software won't go to the field and collect coordinates for you, but it'll manage the data once you've got it.