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.
Commission published its simplification review of the regulation, with revised guidance, FAQs and a draft change to the product scope.
Commission adopted a delegated act removing leather and several other products from Annex I and adding soluble coffee, palm oil derivatives and frozen cattle tongues, plus an implementing act simplifying declarations for micro and small primary operators.
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102 published in the Official Journal after scrutiny ended without objection; the removals from Annex I took effect on 18 September 2026.
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Obligations apply to large and medium operators and traders, and to micro and small operators already covered by the Timber Regulation.
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Obligations apply to all other micro and small enterprises.
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Products newly added by the delegated act come into scope.
The first compliance date for the EU Deforestation Regulation is 30 December 2026 (large and medium operators); 30 June 2027 (most micro and small). The next statutory step on the calendar is 30 December 2026.
As of 13 October 2026, the EU Deforestation Regulation is delayed in European Union. Plot-level proof that seven commodity groups entering the EU are deforestation-free and legally produced, required from 30 December 2026.
Leather removal confirmed as law: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102 was published on 17 September 2026 and took effect the next day. That revision was logged in October 2026 on the hredd.org tracker.
Tracker revisions, logged openly
October 2026 Leather removal confirmed as law: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102 was published on 17 September 2026 and took effect the next day.
September 2026 Added the July 2026 delegated act removing leather from scope, corrected application dates to include medium operators, and replaced a summary paragraph that still gave the superseded 2025 dates.
June 2026 SME application date confirmed; entry updated with benchmarking country classifications.
Sources for every date live on the full tracker entry · movement lands in the monthly digest first