The EUDR pass/fail condition that commodities or products must meet: no post-2020 deforestation, plus forest-degradation checks for wood products.
Deforestation-free is the core compliance outcome that origin evidence must support. The claim is only useful when it links the product or commodity back to the relevant plot, cut-off date, legality evidence, and due-diligence statement workflow.
This page uses the EUDR Article 2 definition. The term is an official product/admissibility condition, not a broad sustainability label, and it should be read with the EUDR cut-off date and wood-product degradation rule intact.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
(a) that the relevant products contain, have been fed with or have been made using, relevant commodities that were produced on land that has not been subject to deforestation after 31 December, 2020; and (b) in the case of relevant products that contain or have been made using wood, that the wood has been harvested from the forest without inducing forest degradation after 31 December, 2020;
Reference: Article 2, point 13
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with EUDR high-priority policy: source-bound scope/role boundaries, concrete origin and market-activity records, and traceability-focused commentary.
EUDR obligations apply from 30 December 2024 for large operators and 30 June 2025 for SMEs, subject to country risk benchmarking.
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 plot-of-land link, cut-off date, legality status, due-diligence statement, commodity/product link, operator/trader role, geolocation evidence, risk assessment result, and any wood-product forest-degradation assessment.
Deforestation-free is the EUDR outcome field that traceability evidence must substantiate. It should be linked to production-place evidence and routed into market-admissibility decisions so a product claim can be validated or blocked before market activity.