EUDR

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EUDR — the EU Deforestation Regulation (Regulation EU 2023/1115) — is the EU instrument that bans the import and sale of seven commodities (palm oil, soy, beef, cocoa, coffee, rubber, wood) and their derived products into the EU market if they are linked to deforestation after the 2020 cutoff. Importers must conduct due diligence and produce per-shipment geolocation data tracing the commodity to its specific plot of land, verifying that the plot was not forested in 2020 or has not since been deforested.

EUDR took effect in December 2024 (delayed from December 2023) and applies to Indonesian palm-oil, rubber, cocoa, coffee, and wood exports. The geolocation requirement is operationally similar to the polygon-and-baseline approach of REDD+ project MRV — and creates significant demand for the same satellite forest-monitoring data (GFW, RADD, GLAD) that KarbonLens uses for its integrity-score reversal-risk component.

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Related terms

• NDPE
• GFW
• RADD