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The EU Deforestation Regulation does not bind a farm because of where the farm is. It binds the company that puts the product on the EU market, and that company passes the burden back down the chain to whoever grew it. A cattle, soya or timber producer in the UK, the US or anywhere else who sells into Europe is therefore asked for the same dossier as a producer in France.

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The Law, In Plain Words

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 [1][2]. What it covers. Seven commodities: cattle, wood, cocoa, soya, palm oil, coffee and rubber, and products made from them such as leather, chocolate, tyres and furniture [1]. Who it binds. Any operator who places one of these on the EU market or exports it from the EU, and any trader who sells it on. The operator must show that the product was not produced on land deforested or degraded after the cut-off date, and that it was produced under the laws of the country of production [1]. What the operator must do. Collect the information, including the geolocation of every plot of land the commodity came from, assess the risk, reduce it where needed, and file a due diligence statement in the EU Information System before the product goes on the market. The system opened on 4 December 2024 [1]. The simpler route. Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 lets a micro or small primary operator in a country classed as low risk file a single simplified declaration instead, with the content set in a new Annex III. Operators further down the chain collect and keep the reference number of that first declaration for five years and do not file their own [2]. When it applies. Large and medium operators from 30 December 2026. Micro and small operators, and natural persons, from 30 June 2027. Micro and small operators already covered by the EU Timber Regulation from 30 December 2026 [1][2]. The 2027 date on this page is the one for micro and small operators, the class most farms fall in. Who checks and what happens if you fail. Each member state names a competent authority that checks operators and traders. The Commission classes countries as low, standard or high risk, and the level of checking follows the class [1]. A product without a valid statement cannot be placed on the market, and a non-compliant operator faces penalties set by the member state.

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Where It Applies

The regulation is an EU market rule, not a rule about the location of the farm. Because the duty follows the product, one dossier serves every buyer in the chain.

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What AgriHub360 Keeps

The dossier is built from the field boundaries with their dates. Each parcel that produces a covered commodity carries its boundary as drawn in the app and the dates that go with it. The geolocation is in the record when a buyer asks for it. The due diligence document is drafted from the parcels, the records and your answers to a short questionnaire, then rendered to PDF. Parcels and their dates come straight from the record. No model touches them. EUDR Document Drafting describes how. The dossier sits in the One Compliance Vault with the other records and exports as a PDF or a share link. It is kept for as long as the regulation asks of the operator it is supplied to. A section with nothing in it says “nothing recorded”.
Cartoon of a field boundary with marked corners and a date copied on to a dossier page that goes to a cargo ship at a port.

A parcel boundary with its corner coordinates and date goes on to the dossier that travels with the shipment.

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References

  1. European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment. Regulation on deforestation-free products.
  2. European Commission, Access2Markets. Delay until December 2026 and other developments in the implementation of the EUDR Regulation.