EUDR geolocation evidence and Annex I commodity lookup

The lookup should first decide whether the item is a relevant commodity or relevant product listed in Annex I. The commodity families are cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya, and wood; only the derived products listed under the relevant Combined Nomenclature (CN) entries are in scope.

Read Annex I together with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102, in force from 18 September 2026. Its product removals, exclusions and revised descriptions affect the scope match. Specific added products, including frozen cattle tongues and coffee extracts, separately apply from 30 December 2027. Record the exact amended entry, Combined Nomenclature (CN) code, product description and applicable date for each scope decision.

The evidence file should show who supplied the product, who receives it downstream, and which due diligence statement reference number or simplified-declaration identifier travels with the product where the supplier is an operator. This makes the lookup useful for operators, downstream operators, and traders rather than only for sustainability reporting.

Use commercial records as join keys: supplier account, purchase order, lot, batch, shipment, consignment, warehouse receipt, customer order, and export file. These operational identifiers are not a substitute for EUDR due diligence, but they prevent the geolocation file, supplier file, and due diligence statement log from drifting apart.

Article 2 defines geolocation as latitude and longitude using at least six decimal digits. Article 9 requires all plots where the relevant commodities were produced and, for cattle, every establishment where the cattle were kept. For a plot larger than four hectares used for commodities other than cattle, provide a polygon with enough latitude and longitude points to describe its perimeter.

Capture the production date or time range as well as the coordinates. If any relevant commodity was produced on multiple plots, every plot must be included; if the product cannot be linked to all required locations, Article 9 does not allow the operator to place it on the market or export it. A qualifying micro or small primary operator may instead provide a postal address that clearly corresponds to the geographic location under Article 4a.

The lookup is not complete when coordinates or supplier documents are collected. On the standard route, EUDR due diligence includes information collection, risk assessment, and risk mitigation where needed. Article 13 permits qualifying low-risk production to omit Articles 10 and 11 after the required checks. Operators should use the linked product, supplier, country or part-of-country risk context, geolocation evidence, and legality documentation to decide whether there is no or only negligible risk before placing on the market or exporting.

If risk is not negligible, mitigate it before placement or export. Keep the mitigation action, reviewer, outcome, and product or transaction identifiers together.

Operators exercise due diligence before placing relevant products on the market or exporting them. Unless the separate Article 4a regime applies, they submit a due diligence statement through the Article 33 information system after the evidence supports compliance and no or negligible risk.

The commodity lookup should therefore be able to reconstruct the path from product and supplier records to geolocation evidence, risk assessment, mitigation if any, and due diligence statement reference numbers. Downstream operators and traders also need the relevant supply-chain information and reference numbers or identifiers so the evidence can travel further down the supply chain.