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EUDR for the coffee you bring into Europe.
If you are the first to place non-EU green coffee on the EU market, the Deforestation Regulation makes you the operator: the party that has to prove the beans aren’t linked to forest cleared after 2020, and file the statement that says so. We carry that work for you, with a deforestation check built for the way coffee actually grows.
What the regulation asks of you
Three things every coffee operator has to produce.
Geolocation of every producer plot.
For each parcel of land where your coffee was grown, you need coordinates (polygons, or a point with area for plots up to four hectares) down to six decimal places, tracing back to the 31 December 2020 cut-off. One shipment can blend beans from dozens of smallholder plots, and each one has to be located.
Due diligence that the land wasn’t deforested.
You must show that none of those plots sat on forest converted to farmland after the cut-off date. That means reading the land against real forest-monitoring data, plot by plot, and writing down how you reached the conclusion, not simply asserting it.
A Due Diligence Statement filed in TRACES.
Before the coffee is placed on the EU market, a DDS goes into the EU’s TRACES system. It returns a reference number (and a verification number) that your customers and the authorities can ask you for. Those records have to be kept for five years.
A note that trips people up: the simplified, address-only declaration introduced in 2025 is for small primary operators placing their own produce, in low-risk countries. As an EU importer of someone else’s coffee you’re not a primary operator, so you still file the full statement with plot geolocation, whatever the origin country’s risk class.
Why shade-grown coffee is different
The trees over your coffee can fool a single map.
A lot of the world’s coffee grows under a canopy: shade trees planted among the coffee for cooler, more resilient plots. That canopy is farm management, not forest. But when those shade trees are pruned, thinned or replanted, a single satellite map sees tree cover disappear and reads it as loss.
Overlay one map and hit “flag,” and a perfectly legal agroforestry farm lands in the reject pile, a false alarm that costs you a shipment and a morning of arguing with a spreadsheet. So we don’t trust one map. A 2020 baseline sets the forest line; a change layer shows what moved since; and a third classifies whether that movement was genuine deforestation or the ordinary rhythm of a tree-crop system. Confirmed post-2020 conversion is flagged with the evidence behind it; a shade-grown plot that looks busy but isn’t cleared is surfaced for a person to review rather than auto-failed.
How we carry it
You send the coordinates. We do the rest.
We file as your Authorised Representative.
With a short written mandate, we act as the EU-established representative the regulation allows to submit on your behalf. Your operator identity and EORI go in the statement, never ours.
We assess and submit.
Every plot is checked with the type-aware method above, then the geolocation and due-diligence record are assembled into your DDS and filed in TRACES. We retrieve the reference number your buyers may request.
You keep a defensible record.
You receive a self-contained bundle (plot geometry, the assessment and the data behind it, and the TRACES reference) sealed together and yours to hold for the five years the regulation requires.
What we provide is documented, defensible due diligence and a clean filing, the kind you can stand behind when a buyer or an auditor asks.
Why prepare now
The clock for smaller importers runs to mid-2027.
As it currently stands, large and medium operators come under the rules from 30 December 2026, and micro and small enterprises from 30 June 2027. If you’re a smaller coffee importer, that later date is yours, and it can feel far off.
It isn’t, in practice. The hard part isn’t the filing; it’s getting coordinates for every plot back through your supply chain, which is slow work that depends on cooperatives and exporters you don’t control. Starting a season or two early means your first real filing is a rehearsal, not a scramble. Dates have shifted before and could again, which is exactly why you start the coordinate work now, not when the deadline is on top of you.
Get in touch
Tell us about your coffee.
Where you import from, roughly how many plots are behind a shipment, and where you are with coordinates. That’s enough for us to show you exactly what your filing would involve.