Treat EUDR dates like release gates: data readiness, supplier onboarding, and due diligence statements.
This calendar highlights the milestones that block go-live: information system, benchmarking, and application dates.
Structured answer sets in this page tree.
Cited legal and guidance references.
EUDR implementation is constrained by a few hard dates and several dependency milestones. Use this calendar to plan data readiness, supplier onboarding and traceability rollout, and the operational gate for due diligence statement reference numbers. The main compliance date is 30 December 2026, with a later 30 June 2027 date for certain natural persons and micro or small undertakings established by 31 December 2024, subject to the conditions in the Regulation.
This is the high-signal calendar: key obligations and dependency milestones you should reflect in your backlog and procurement deadlines.
If you wait until the main application date to start evidence collection and system design, you will not catch up.
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Scope mapping is your first release gate. It unlocks the rest: which products need geolocation, what supplier evidence to request, and who is responsible as operator vs trader.
Make scope mapping a master-data deliverable, not a spreadsheet that dies in email.
The due diligence system requires information and evidence collection, including geolocation of plots of land/establishments (with specific handling for certain micro/small primary operators).
Treat geolocation as a pipeline: collection, validation, storage, and packaging per batch/lot.
Operators must not place on the market or export without prior submission of a due diligence statement, or a simplified declaration where the Regulation allows it. This creates an operational gate in your shipping and release flow.
Design for reuse: reference numbers and identifiers must be communicated down the supply chain and retained for years.
Benchmarking affects your risk posture and whether simplified due diligence may apply for low-risk production. Prepare to update decisions when the benchmarking list is published and as it changes.
Even in low-risk contexts, you must control complexity and circumvention/mixing risk.