Authoritative regulatory texts, Commission portals, and upstream data documentation. This page is the link-of-record for every external citation across the knowledge base.
| Reference | What it is |
|---|---|
| Reg. (EU) 2023/1115 | The EU Deforestation Regulation. CELEX: 32023R1115. Entered into force 29 June 2023. |
| Reg. (EU) 2024/3234 | First postponement (Dec 2024). CELEX: 32024R3234. |
| Reg. (EU) 2025/2650 | Second postponement + simplification (Dec 2025). CELEX: 32025R2650. Deletes Annex II point 4; removes DDS-filing duty for downstream operators and non-SME traders. |
| Implementing Reg. (EU) 2025/1093 | First country benchmark (22 May 2025). CELEX: 32025R1093. |
| Directive 2013/34/EU | SME thresholds (referenced by Art. 2(31) of EUDR). |
| Portal | What it covers |
|---|---|
| DG ENV deforestation portal | The Commission's central EUDR landing page. Q&A document, guidance, links to implementing acts. |
| Commission Q&A document | Non-binding but operationally authoritative. Updated periodically. |
| Green Forum traceability + geolocation | Geolocation submission rules. |
| Council press release on 2025/2650 | Dec 2025 Council communication on the simplification + postponement. |
| Reference | What it is |
|---|---|
| TRACES NT portal | Operator submission endpoint. Requires EU Login. |
| DG TAXUD HS / CN database | Look up your HS-6 / HS-8 / CN8 code. |
| TRACES NT v2 EUDR Submission Service WSDL | Pull from your acceptance environment — not published as a public document. |
| Source | What it is | License |
|---|---|---|
| Hansen Global Forest Change | Annual global forest-loss raster, 30 m, by University of Maryland (GLAD lab). | CC-BY 4.0. |
| ESA WorldCover 2021 | Global land-cover classification, 10 m, by ESA. | CC-BY 4.0. |
| JRC Global Forest Cover 2020 v3 | EU-Commission-funded forest baseline at the EUDR cut-off (31 Dec 2020). | CC-BY 4.0. |
| RADD (Wageningen) | Near-real-time deforestation alerts from Sentinel-1 SAR + Sentinel-2 optical. Updated weekly. | CC-BY 4.0. |
| JRC Global Surface Water | Pixel-level water-occurrence statistics 1984–2021. | CC-BY 4.0. |
| Copernicus DEM 30 m | Global digital elevation model. | Free for non-commercial; commercial under licence. |
| SoilGrids 250 m | Global soil property maps from ISRIC. | CC-BY 4.0. |
| met.no Weather API | Norwegian Meteorological Institute global weather. | Free, attribution required. |
| Reference | What it is |
|---|---|
| emem on GitHub | The open-source Earth-memory protocol that supplies every signed per-cell fact eudr.dev cites. |
| emem.dev hosted instance | The reference deployment. |
| Reference | What it is |
|---|---|
| FAO Forest Resources Assessment | The FAO definition of forest (0.5 ha, 5 m, 10 % canopy) that Art. 2(4) of EUDR follows. |
| UN Sustainable Development Goals | SDG 15 (Life on Land), 12 (Responsible Consumption), 13 (Climate Action) — the SDGs EUDR most directly serves. |
| IPCC AR6 WG3 | Climate-change mitigation assessment, including land-use emissions. |
| Reference | What it is |
|---|---|
| Vortx-AI/emem on GitHub | The open-source Earth-memory protocol eudr.dev is built on. eudr.dev itself is a closed-runtime AI agent operated by Vortx AI Private Limited; for code, logic, and wire-format questions, refer to the emem repository. |
/openapi.json | The OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the engine's HTTP surface. |
/.well-known/agent-card.json | A2A v1.0 agent card — skills, JSON-RPC endpoint, ed25519 pubkey. |
/.well-known/mcp.json | MCP host-config snippet for Claude Desktop / Cursor / Continue / Cody / Zed. |
/llms.txt | LLM-readable site map of the machine-actionable surface. |
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