Intertek EUDR Compliance Solutions

Our end-to-end EUDR compliance solutions, enable brands to achieve transparency, reduce risk, and maintain market access—all while supporting a greener future.

Deforestation has reached critical levels, with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimating that 420 million hectares of forest – around 10% of the world’s total – were lost between 1990 and 2020. In response, the European Union has enacted the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), effective December 30, 2025, requiring companies to verify that specific commodities are deforestation-free before selling them in the EU.

This regulation applies to essential commodities, including:

Cattle –‍ live cattle, meat, leather
Cocoa –‍ cocoa butter, cocoa beans, and chocolate products
Coffee – including coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion
Palm oil –‍ including glycerol and fatty acids derived from palm oil
Rubber –‍ rubber gloves and tyres
Soya –‍ soya meal and soya bean oil
Wood –‍ furniture, paper, and packaging items

Non-compliance could result in severe fines, up to 4% of a company’s EU turnover, and potential exclusion from the EU market. With both regulatory pressure and consumer demand rising, it’s crucial for brands, traders, and importers to ensure compliance.

Intertek offers comprehensive EUDR assurance services to simplify your path to compliance:

EUDR Consulting Services: Expert regulatory support to help you understand and meet EUDR requirements.
Scope & Applicability Assessment: Clear analysis to determine if your product portfolio are in scope or excluded under the latest EUDR guidance and accurately determine your role in the supplychain.
GAP Assessment: Evaluates your current supply chain and operational processes, identifying gaps and creating a customized EUDR compliance strategy.
Risk Assessment: Thorough country-of-production risk assessments covering the 14 mandatory pillars required to meet due diligence.
Training: Tailored training programs to equip your team with the knowledge and tools to navigate EUDR compliance confidently.

Our inspection and certification offerings are designed to ensure deforestation-free supply chains:

Risk Mitigation: Site-specific audits, surveys, and inspections to assess and reduce deforestation risk, verifying compliance with regulatory standards.
Verification: Independent verification of product origins to uphold supply chain integrity and traceability.

Certification: Support for achieving FSC, PEFC, and other sustainability accreditations to confirm compliance.

EUDRtrace brings traceability and transparency to your supply chain, ensuring each product meets EUDR standards.

Stable and Secure Platform: Built on advanced blockchain technology to provide transparent, secure compliance solutions.
End-to-End Traceability: Track every batch with precise geolocation data for complete visibility.
EUDR Risk Assessment: Integrated tools assess EUDR risk on a batch basis, enhancing due diligence.
Reporting: Directly upload due diligence statements to the European Commission’s single window system for streamlined reporting.

The Intertek Advantage

Intertek provides a complete, end-to-end compliance solution, ensuring a smooth journey from farm to consumer. Our services are designed to reduce brand risk, protect your market access, and navigate regulatory complexities with ease.

Partnering with Intertek means:

Complete transparency and trust in your supply chain
Expert regulatory guidance, training, and verification
Commodity mapping and on-ground assurance powered by the latest technology

Build a sustainable, transparent supply chain with Intertek EUDR and lead the way toward a greener, more responsible future.

Frequently Asked Questions

The seven commodities covered under the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) are cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy, and wood.

The relevant products listed in Annex I of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) are within scope of the regulation.

How we support you: We conduct scoping verification and supplier mapping assessments to determine full product exposure, including comprehensive data collection from all production levels tiers (i.e., from growing and harvesting steps in the supply chain.

Products must be produced, i.e., grown, harvested, obtained from or raised on relevant plots of land or, as regards cattle, on establishments; from land that has not been subject to deforestation after 31 December 2020.

For relevant products containing wood, this includes forest degradation.

How we support you: We validate plot‑level land use history using satellite overlays and historical forest‑cover datasets.

Medium & Large Operators: 30 December 2026

Micro & Small Operators (est. by 31 Dec 2024, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU): 30 June 2027 (excluding Annex products under the European Union Timber Regulation)

How we support you: We build phased readiness roadmaps backward from enforcement deadlines to ensure timely, practical compliance.

Operator: the first person or company to place a relevant commodity or product on the EU market or export it, excluding downstream operators.

Downstream Operator: a person or company selling or exporting products made from other relevant products, all covered by due diligence.

‘Micro or Small Primary Operator’: defined as micro or small in accordance regulation and established in a low-risk country in accordance with Art. 29, who produces the relevant commodities themselves (i.e., growing, harvesting, obtaining, or raising) and places or exports those products on the EU market.

Trader: any person in the supply chain, other than an operator or downstream operator, who makes relevant products available on the EU market, meaning any supply of a relevant product for distribution, use, or consumption.

How we support you: We identify each legal role in the supply chain and due diligence obligations.

Penalties shall be effective, proportionate, and dissuasive, and shall include:

Fines - fines shall be at least 4% of total EU-wide annual turnover.

Confiscation - of relevant products and revenue gained.

Temporary exclusions - up to 12 months from public procurement, funding, grants, and concessions.

Market restrictions – temporary prohibition from placing, making available, or exporting relevant commodities/products in cases of serious or repeated infringements.

Due diligence restrictions - prohibition from using the simplified due diligence (Art. 13) process for serious or repeated infringements.

How we support you: We design audit‑ready compliance frameworks.

'Geolocation' refers to the geographical location of a plot of land, expressed using latitude and longitude coordinates with at least six decimal digits. For plots larger than four hectares (except for cattle production), geolocation must be provided as polygons with enough latitude and longitude points to accurately describe the perimeter of each plot.

For products containing cattle, geolocation must cover all establishments where the animals were kept. Only a single latitude and longitude point (not polygons) is required for each establishment.

Upstream Operators must collect the geolocation of all plots of land where the relevant commodities used in a product were produced, along with the date or time range of production. If a product contains commodities sourced from multiple plots, the geolocation details for all plots must be included.

How we support you: We offer a supplier portal to support data collection from suppliers in both a proactive and reactive manner, complemented with supplier training tailored to their specific requirements.