The United Nations reported that the world is still losing 10 million hectares of forest each year. As part of the European Green Deal and the wider EU strategy to protect the world’s forests, the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) aims to prevent products and commodities that have contributed to deforestation from entering the EU market. For specific products such as coffee, soy and palm oil, the party placing these products on the EU market must ‘ensure’ that a product has not contributed to deforestation and has been produced legally. The EUDR thus creates a far-reaching obligation for companies to implement a due diligence procedure and collect extensive data on the products’ origin to prove that no deforestation occurred. 

In this factsheet, we provide a high-level overview of the EUDR's scope and its obligations. First we discuss the EUDR’s scope (including relevant products and impacted parties) and its key obligations. Then, we explain the risk of enforcement and entry into force.