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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Omnibus I in force since March 2026; transposition due July 2028 and application from July 2029.
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Geolocation-backed proof that seven commodity groups entering the EU are deforestation-free and legally produced.
Second postponement published one week before application; large operators now start on 30 December 2026.
In plain language
The EUDR requires companies placing relevant commodities on the EU market to prove, with plot-level geolocation data, that products are deforestation-free after the 2020 cut-off and produced in compliance with the laws of the country of production. After a one-year delay, obligations for large operators applied from 30 December 2025, with small and micro enterprises following on 30 June 2026.
For producer countries the regulation has already reshaped procurement. Buyers are demanding polygon mapping from farm level upwards, and smallholders without digital land records face exclusion risk unless supported. The country benchmarking system determines the intensity of checks that shipments face at the border.
Obligations
Every relevant shipment requires a due diligence statement referencing plot-level coordinates for the production location.
Products must not be produced on land deforested after 31 December 2020, regardless of local legality.
Production must comply with the producing country laws on land use, labour, human rights and tax.
Timeline
Regulation entered into force.
First postponement moved application back by twelve months following implementation concerns.
Country benchmarking classifications published, sorting producer countries into risk tiers.
Second postponement published in the Official Journal one week before application, moving large operators to 30 December 2026 and micro and small enterprises to 30 June 2027.
Obligations apply to large operators and traders.
Obligations apply to micro and small enterprises.
Changelog
SME application date confirmed; entry updated with benchmarking country classifications.
Exposed export value at full application, across the ten tracked origins · Figures come from UN Comtrade. For each country we use what its buyer markets reported importing, rather than what the country itself reported exporting, because several tracked countries report to Comtrade late or not at all. Every share is measured against that country's exports to the nine regulated markets this index tracks, not against its total exports to the world, because no reliable world total exists for countries that under-report. European Union figures add up all twenty seven member states. The European product breakdown by chapter is estimated from the four largest importers, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy, and scaled up to the full twenty seven member total, so it captures which products dominate without understating any single one. · methodology
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Omnibus I in force since March 2026; transposition due July 2028 and application from July 2029.
Read →Omnibus narrowed scope to 1,000 employees from FY2027; first wave reporting continues with opt-outs.
Read →Commission published its enforcement guidelines on 30 June 2026, alongside a provisional list of national competent authorities.
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