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

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).

Commission portals

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.

TRACES NT

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.

Earth-observation data sources

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.
JRC Global Surface Water	Pixel-level water-occurrence statistics 1984–2021.	CC-BY 4.0.
Copernicus DEM GLO-30	Global digital elevation model, 30 m, from TanDEM-X acquisitions 2011–2015.	Free worldwide to any registered user of the Copernicus Data Space; credit © DLR e.V. when redistributing. The 10 m European instance (EEA-10) is restricted and is not used here. 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.

emem.dev

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.

FAO + SDG references

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.

Engine + project sources

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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