EUDR country risk classification: low, standard or high
Regulation (EU) 2025/1093 lists 140 low-risk and 4 high-risk countries. Everything else — Brazil, Indonesia, Côte d'Ivoire — is standard risk by default.
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Focused explanations for the supplier data and geolocation work behind a defensible EUDR process. Every article shows its author, reviewer, sources and correction history.
EUDR penalties: what non-compliance actually costs
Article 25 sets a floor under the ceiling: national maximum fines must reach at least 4% of EU-wide turnover. Here is the full list, and what bites before any fine.
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EUDR plot needs evidence after a satellite check: what next
"Needs evidence" is not a fail and not a pass. Here is what Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Article 11(1) lets you do next, and why the satellite result never flips to clear.
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Fix rejected EUDR GeoJSON: the 15 errors the EU lists
The European Commission publishes its own list of 15 common EUDR GeoJSON file errors. What each one means, and which ones a geometry check never sees.
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EUDR swapped latitude longitude: how to catch it
A swapped coordinate pair is only refused when it leaves the valid range. Below 90 degrees of longitude it passes every EUDR check and still points at the wrong land.
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EUDR DDS submission steps and the 72-hour window
How an EUDR due diligence statement moves through the EU Information System, and the 72-hour window to amend or withdraw it once the reference number lands.
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EUDR polygon self-intersection: why we won't auto-fix it
A plot boundary that crosses itself blocks an EUDR GeoJSON file. Splitting it clears the check and changes the land you are declaring — so it stays your decision.
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EUDR GeoJSON file size limit: the 25,000,000-byte ceiling
The EUDR size limit that bites is on the assembled declaration, not your upload: 25,000,000 bytes of geolocation, plus commodity and producer ceilings.
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EUDR simplified due diligence: Article 13 or Article 4a?
Article 13 simplified due diligence drops the Article 10 and 11 work when all sourcing is low risk. Article 4a is a separate one-time route for small growers.
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How to convert KML to EUDR-ready GeoJSON
A KML is already in WGS84, so there is nothing to reproject. The work is everything else — placemarks that aren't plots, attributes buried in ExtendedData, six decimals.
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How to convert a shapefile to EUDR-ready GeoJSON
Reproject to WGS84 and export GeoJSON — then fix the six things the conversion leaves behind: winding, holes, multipart records, precision, field names, point or polygon.
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EUDR four-hectare rule: point or polygon?
The EUDR four-hectare rule in plain terms — when a single coordinate is enough, when you need a polygon, and why a point with no Area is read as four hectares.
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EUDR GeoJSON validation errors and how to fix them
Every blocking check an EUDR GeoJSON file has to pass, five causes worth checking first, and what a clean file still does not prove.
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How do you prove a plot is deforestation-free?
A satellite check that says "clear" is not proof. Here is what an EUDR deforestation check can and cannot establish, and what a defensible record looks like.
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Digital product passport requirements: what a DPP needs
ESPR fixes the requirements every EU digital product passport must meet. What goes inside one is decided per product group, in its own delegated act.
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EUDR operator vs trader: which one are you, and what changes
Under Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 an operator files a due diligence statement and carries the liability. A trader only passes information on. Here is how to tell which.
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EUDR risk assessment: the negligible-risk test, explained
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 lets you ship only when risk is no more than negligible. Here is what Article 10 asks you to weigh, and when low-risk sourcing lets you skip it.
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What is the EUDR? The EU Deforestation Regulation, explained
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 keeps cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood off the EU market unless they are deforestation-free, legal and declared.
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EUDR compliance checklist: what to have before you file
A cited step-by-step EUDR checklist: which date applies, the geolocation rules, declaration routes, filing limits, and what a file check cannot prove.
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EUDR due diligence statement: what goes in it
What an EUDR due diligence statement must contain, who submits it, why the reference number arrives late, and the point at which you can no longer change it.
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EU digital product passport: what it is and when it applies
The EU digital product passport comes from Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR). The framework is already law, but each product group waits for its own delegated act.
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What is CBAM? The EU's carbon border charge, explained
CBAM puts a carbon cost on certain imports — cement, steel, aluminium, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity — so EU and non-EU producers compete on a level footing.
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EUDR deadline 2026: who must comply and when?
The EUDR applies on 30 December 2026 or 30 June 2027 depending on business size, role and product. Use this practical date checklist.
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EUDR Information System API V3: What Changed in July 2026
A practical guide to EUDR API V3: UUID-first submissions, delayed reference numbers, simplified declarations, grouping and GeoJSON checks.
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EUDR geolocation requirements: point or polygon
A practical EUDR GeoJSON checklist: the four-hectare point-versus-polygon rule, coordinate precision, file structure and what validation cannot prove.
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