An EUDR actor-location term covering EU residence, registered office, central headquarters, or permanent business establishment.
The term is not just a geography label. It determines whether an actor has the residence, registered-office, headquarters, or permanent-establishment connection that EUDR uses for role and responsibility logic.
EUDR Article 2 defines the term separately for natural persons and legal persons/associations: residence in the Union for natural persons, and registered office, central headquarters, or permanent business establishment in the Union for legal persons or associations.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
(a) in the case of a natural person, any person whose place of residence is in the Union; (b) in the case of a legal person or an association of persons, any person whose registered office, central headquarters or a permanent business establishment is in the Union;
Reference: Article 2, point 21
Public draft page. Preserve EUDR land-use, forest-type, actor-location, and market-trigger boundaries.
Implementation records should capture actor type, place of residence or establishment, registered office, central headquarters, permanent business establishment, Member State, evidence document, and date of verification.
Person established in the Union is an actor-location evidence field. It helps route EUDR responsibilities to the right legal subject and EU establishment relationship.