The EUDR governs the placing and making available of relevant products on the European market and their export. Due diligence combines the collection and examination of information with applicable checks. Obligations vary according to the company’s role: not every party is required to submit a new DDS.
Information collection
For operators: products, quantities, timber species, origin, suppliers and evidence of legality; downstream, traceability information.
Geolocation
Identify production plots. For eligible micro or small primary operators, the postal address of all the relevant plots or the production establishment may replace geolocation.
Risk assessment
Operators verify information and assess risk, subject to the simplified regime under Article 13.
Risk mitigation measures
If risk is not negligible or zero, the operator must reduce it to that level before placing products on the market or exporting them.
Due diligence statement
DDS for operators subject to Article 4. Eligible micro or small primary operators are subject to a single simplified declaration, updateable following a major change, with an identifier distinct from a DDS reference. Due diligence remains required. No new DDS is required solely because of the role of downstream actor or trader.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115
The EUDR establishes harmonised rules intended to prevent certain products placed on the European Union market from being associated with deforestation or forest degradation.
Objective
Relevant products must be deforestation-free, comply with the relevant legislation of the country of production and be covered by the required declaration: a DDS or a simplified declaration, depending on the applicable regime.
Relevant products
Timber, cocoa, coffee, rubber, soya, oil palm, cattle and derived products listed in Annex I. Customs codes and exclusions determine the scope.
Who is affected?
Operators: first placing on the market or export. Downstream actors and traders: distinct obligations, without a new DDS arising from that role. Adapted provisions for SMEs; a specific regime for eligible micro or small primary operators producing their own products in low-risk countries.
Application timetable
According to role, size and relevant products.
30 December 2026
General deadline, notably for medium and large operators.
Timber products covered by the EUTR: the same date, including for micro and small businesses, subject to the transitional measures in Article 37.
30 June 2027
Deferral for operators who are natural persons, micro or small, established as such by 31 December 2024, excluding products already covered by the EUTR.
Products added in 2026: certain new categories are subject to 30 December 2027 (amended Annex I).
Position as at 17 October 2026 · Article 38 · EUR-Lex · European Commission
AMA investigates the operation’s documents, examines documentary and geospatial information and performs the checks specified in the assignment.
It identifies inconsistencies and reservations, compiles a documented dossier and prepares information useful for the DDS where required.
The operator retains its regulatory responsibilities: it validates the information and conclusions, makes decisions within its role and carries out the applicable formalities.
Where a DDS is required, it ensures submission through the European information system, directly or through an authorised representative, without transfer of responsibility.
Compiling the dossier and submitting the DDS are two distinct stages. AMA reports are neither EUDR certification nor a guarantee of compliance.
The EUDR / RDUE is a European regulation, not an official certification scheme. There is no official EUDR certification issued by the European Union that automatically guarantees an operation’s compliance.
Private certifications may contribute to information collection and risk assessment; they do not replace the operator’s due diligence. AMA performs independent, documented checks and does not issue regulatory certification.
Collecting documents is not enough: the operator must examine the information and document the checks applicable to its role.
Field checks and GPS surveys according to the operation’s needs and the scope of the assignment.
Field observations
Geospatial analysis
Structured dossier
GPS surveys
Verifiable data
Risk summary
Agroforest Monitoring Agency provides independent documentary, field and geospatial verification evidence to strengthen the evidence dossier.
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