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Knowledge base

Operator-facing explainers: the law, the obligations, the practical details. Last reviewed 2026-05-18 against Reg. (EU) 2023/1115 as amended by Reg. (EU) 2025/2650.

What is EUDR? · Reg. (EU) 2023/1115 in plain English: the three tests, who has to comply, what changed under the 2025/2650 amendment.
Key dates and timeline · Entry into force 2023-06-29 · 2024/3234 first postponement · 2025/2650 second postponement and simplification · current application dates 2026-12-30 / 2027-06-30.
The 7 commodities + HS codes · Cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya, wood: Annex I HS prefixes with the engine's canonical reference.
The 3-step due-diligence process · Information collection (Art. 9) → risk assessment (Art. 10) → mitigation (Art. 11). Simplified DD (Art. 13) for exclusive low-risk sourcing.
Geolocation requirements · Polygon by default; point allowed for cattle (any size) and non-cattle plots ≤ 4 ha. WGS84, 6-decimal precision, GeoJSON, 25 MB limit.
Country benchmarking · Implementing Reg. 2025/1093 tiers (low / standard / high). Check rates, simplified-DD unlock, sub-national qualifiers.
DDS anatomy and receipts · What Annex II carries post-2025/2650, how the engine signs it, how an auditor reads the receipt offline.
TRACES NT submission · WSDL location, required fields, the activity types (IMPORT/EXPORT/DOMESTIC/TRADE), the 25 MB limit, and how to export from a eudr.dev receipt.
Operator vs. trader vs. downstream · Who files a DDS after the 2025/2650 simplification; SME thresholds; substantial-transformation rule; worked examples.
Common pitfalls · Ten failure modes we see most often when companies and AI agents put together their first DDS — and how to fix each.
Penalties and enforcement · Art. 25 Member-State penalty floor (≥ 4% turnover), confiscation, temporary exclusion. Substantiated concerns under Art. 31. Check rates per tier.
SDG alignment · Where EUDR lands on SDG 15 (Life on Land), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption), SDG 13 (Climate Action). What the receipt contributes to operator SDG reporting.
Glossary · Annex I, deforestation, plot of land, negligible risk, substantiated concern — every regulatory term in plain English.
Sources and references · EUR-Lex links, Commission portals, TRACES NT entry point, JRC GFC2020, FAO Forest Resources Assessment, SDG sources. The link-of-record for every external citation.

Engineering-side pages (methodology, architecture, offline verification) are at /docs. For correspondence: avijeet@vortx.ai.