Use this EUDR calendar to separate legal application dates from system, benchmarking, and preparation milestones.
The page focuses on dates and phasing supported by the local EUDR grounding sources.
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Cited legal and guidance references.
The EU Deforestation Regulation calendar has several different clocks: the Regulation's entry into force, the Article 33 information system, country-risk benchmarking, the main application date, and a later application date for a limited cohort. Treat each milestone as a separate workstream so procurement, trade compliance, sustainability, and supplier teams know which evidence must be ready before placing, making available, or exporting relevant products.
These are the grounded EUDR milestones that should appear in an implementation calendar. The application dates below come from the consolidated EUDR text and the Commission overview represented in the grounding data.
Do not use this calendar to infer extra grace periods, penalties, or enforcement dates. Add those only when they are separately supported by official source material.
Use this calendar to assign owners for product scoping, supplier evidence, country-risk updates, Article 33 system work, and due diligence statement records before the applicable EUDR date.
From the main application date, operators should not place relevant products on the market or export them unless the Article 3 conditions are met. That means the product is deforestation-free, produced in accordance with relevant legislation of the country of production, and covered by the required due diligence statement or simplified declaration.
The later 30 June 2027 date is not a general delay for every business. The consolidated text identifies it as a later application date for certain natural persons and micro and small undertakings established by 31 December 2024, subject to the Regulation's conditions.
Country risk affects how much due diligence work is needed. The grounding data supports two benchmarking milestones: initial standard-risk assignment for all countries and the deadline for the Commission to publish low-risk and high-risk country lists or parts of countries.
The Article 33 information system is a separate operational dependency. Teams should treat it as the filing and identifier workstream for due diligence statements, simplified declarations, and registrations where the Regulation requires them.
Build the calendar backwards from the first product movements that will occur on or after the applicable date for each cohort. A useful EUDR calendar should show what must be ready before a purchase order, shipment, export, or market-placement decision is released.
Keep these tasks tied to maintained evidence rather than one-time status notes. The same records will support due diligence, authority requests, supplier follow-up, and downstream communication.
"Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3084 enters into force."
"30 June 2027: Later application date."
"Main EUDR application date."
"Operators must exercise due diligence (Article 8) before placing on the market or exporting."