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Sources and references

Authoritative regulatory texts, Commission portals, and upstream data documentation. This page is the link-of-record for every external citation across the knowledge base.

EU regulatory texts

ReferenceWhat it is
Reg. (EU) 2023/1115The EU Deforestation Regulation. CELEX: 32023R1115. Entered into force 29 June 2023.
Reg. (EU) 2024/3234First postponement (Dec 2024). CELEX: 32024R3234.
Reg. (EU) 2025/2650Second 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) 2025/1093First country benchmark (22 May 2025). CELEX: 32025R1093.
Directive 2013/34/EUSME thresholds (referenced by Art. 2(31) of EUDR).

Commission portals

PortalWhat it covers
DG ENV deforestation portalThe Commission's central EUDR landing page. Q&A document, guidance, links to implementing acts.
Commission Q&A documentNon-binding but operationally authoritative. Updated periodically.
Green Forum traceability + geolocationGeolocation submission rules.
Council press release on 2025/2650Dec 2025 Council communication on the simplification + postponement.

TRACES NT

ReferenceWhat it is
TRACES NT portalOperator submission endpoint. Requires EU Login.
DG TAXUD HS / CN databaseLook up your HS-6 / HS-8 / CN8 code.
TRACES NT v2 EUDR Submission Service WSDLPull from your acceptance environment — not published as a public document.

Earth-observation data sources

SourceWhat it isLicense
Hansen Global Forest ChangeAnnual global forest-loss raster, 30 m, by University of Maryland (GLAD lab).CC-BY 4.0.
ESA WorldCover 2021Global land-cover classification, 10 m, by ESA.CC-BY 4.0.
JRC Global Forest Cover 2020 v3EU-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 WaterPixel-level water-occurrence statistics 1984–2021.CC-BY 4.0.
Copernicus DEM 30 mGlobal digital elevation model.Free for non-commercial; commercial under licence.
SoilGrids 250 mGlobal soil property maps from ISRIC.CC-BY 4.0.
met.no Weather APINorwegian Meteorological Institute global weather.Free, attribution required.

emem.dev

ReferenceWhat it is
emem on GitHubThe open-source Earth-memory protocol that supplies every signed per-cell fact eudr.dev cites.
emem.dev hosted instanceThe reference deployment.

FAO + SDG references

ReferenceWhat it is
FAO Forest Resources AssessmentThe FAO definition of forest (0.5 ha, 5 m, 10 % canopy) that Art. 2(4) of EUDR follows.
UN Sustainable Development GoalsSDG 15 (Life on Land), 12 (Responsible Consumption), 13 (Climate Action) — the SDGs EUDR most directly serves.
IPCC AR6 WG3Climate-change mitigation assessment, including land-use emissions.

Engine + project sources

ReferenceWhat it is
Vortx-AI/emem on GitHubThe 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.jsonThe OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the engine's HTTP surface.
/.well-known/agent-card.jsonA2A v1.0 agent card — skills, JSON-RPC endpoint, ed25519 pubkey.
/.well-known/mcp.jsonMCP host-config snippet for Claude Desktop / Cursor / Continue / Cody / Zed.
/llms.txtLLM-readable site map of the machine-actionable surface.

How to keep this page current

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