EUDR: what the regulation requires, what already exists, and what we add
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) applies to large and medium-sized companies on 30 December 2026, and to micro and small enterprises on 30 June 2027. It covers cocoa, coffee, wood, palm oil, rubber, soy and cattle, together with certain derived products. The operator placing these products on the Union market must be able to establish where they come from and that they were produced lawfully.
For cocoa and coffee, the preparation of the value chains is led by the inter-professional body, which has deployed its own geolocation and traceability systems. AGROVITA neither duplicates nor replaces them: for these two chains we step in only as a complement, on a specific need expressed by the inter-professional body, by an operator or by its buyer.
For the other products covered — palm oil, rubber, soy, cattle, wood — we start with exploratory work: which flows actually go to Europe, who carries the obligation, which systems exist. We open an assignment only once these points are established.
Primary responsibility rests on the operator placing the product on the Union market — not on the grower. In practice the requirement travels down the chain: the European buyer passes it to their supplier, who passes it to their cooperatives. It is therefore the operator, not the producer, who pays for compliance.
- Exporters and traders: you are the link the regulation names.
- Processors and industrial operators: your raw material must be traceable.
- European buyers and importers: you need documents that hold up before your supervisory authority.
- Cooperatives and groups: you hold the ground — the operator carrying the obligation pays.
- Banks, microfinance institutions and funders: an exporting borrower who loses the European outlet becomes a credit risk.
A map of plots is not enough: the regulation also requires that production be lawful under the law of the country, and that the risk has been assessed. That is documentary and legal work, and it is where we step in.
- Proof of legality: land, labour law, taxation, environment — the documents most often missing.
- A documented risk assessment and the organisation of the documents, in the form expected by the declaring operator.
- A readiness assessment: what is in place, what is missing, what to correct and in which order.
- Compliance built in from the design stage for a new project: plantation, processing unit, supply.
- Skills transfer to teams and producer organisations.
How it runs
- You describe your situation below: product, scope, what already exists.
- We offer a twenty-minute exploratory call — no commitment.
- If a real need is confirmed, we scope a bounded assignment, with its scope and limits in writing.
- Pricing is set assignment by assignment, after that scoping.
Source for the dates: European Commission — Access2Markets, 28 January 2026. The timetable of this regulation has already been postponed; these dates must be rechecked before any decision.
Version 2026.25 — updated 2 October 2026