An EUDR land-use category for tree-based agricultural production systems, including commodity plantations, that is expressly excluded from forest.
Agricultural plantation helps determine whether a tree-covered area is treated as forest or agricultural production under EUDR. This land classification prevents tree-covered production areas from being misread as forest when evidence shows an agricultural production system.
EUDR Article 2 defines agricultural plantation as land with tree stands in agricultural production systems, including plantations of relevant commodities other than wood, and states that agricultural plantations are excluded from the definition of forest.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
land with tree stands in agricultural production systems, such as fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards and agroforestry systems where crops are grown under tree cover; it includes all plantations of relevant commodities other than wood; agricultural plantations are excluded from the definition of ‘forest’;
Reference: Article 2, point 6
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with EUDR forest/production-boundary policy: separates land-cover thresholds, forest-type classifications, production-location evidence, product compliance status, and actor-scope identity.
EUDR applies to the listed commodities and derived products placed on or exported from the EU market from 30 December 2024 (large operators) and 30 June 2025 (SMEs), subject to the benchmarking system that classifies countries as low, standard, or high risk. The applicable obligation level depends on country risk classification as well as operator size.
Implementation records should capture land-use record, crop or tree species, plot identifier, forest-conversion check, production system, historical land-cover evidence, reference date, and source used to distinguish agricultural plantation from forest or plantation forest.
Agricultural plantation is the land-use exclusion control for EUDR plot evidence. It keeps tree-covered agricultural production from being incorrectly modeled as forest by linking plot history, production system, species/crop records, and forest-conversion checks.