EUDR enforcement · 30 December 2026

Was this plot deforested after 31 December 2020?

We screen your supplier plots against the EUDR cutoff with Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, and every result states what the method can and cannot see. Send us your plots and we will come back with a quote.

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What the EUDR asks for

  • Seven commodities: cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood, and many products made from them.
  • No deforestation after 31 December 2020 on the land where they were produced, and production that was legal in the country of origin.
  • Plot-level geolocation: the coordinates or boundary of every plot, carried in a due-diligence statement.
  • Enforcement from 30 December 2026 for large and medium operators and traders, and from 30 June 2027 for micro and small operators.

Satellite screening speaks to the deforestation question only. It does not assess legality.

What satellite screening can show

When forest is cleared, the change is visible from space. Comparing imagery from around the cutoff with imagery from today shows where canopy has been removed, and when.

Two Sentinel-2 images of the same 4 km area in Rondônia, Brazil: mostly forest in August 2020, large cleared areas by July 2025
The same ground in Rondônia, Brazil, before and after the cutoff. Hansen Global Forest Change independently records the loss here in 2024. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020, 2025.

What it cannot show, and why we tell you

Most screening tools give a verdict and stop there. We have measured where ours fails, and those limits are written into every report.

Crops planted under the forest canopy

Shade-grown cocoa and coffee can replace natural forest while the tree canopy above them stays in place. From orbit that can look unchanged, so a clean result means no canopy loss was detected, not that the land is deforestation-free.

Very small plots

A Sentinel-2 pixel is 10 m across. Plots under about half a hectare hold too few pixels for a reliable answer, and we say so rather than guess.

Tree crops that look like forest

A mature orchard or plantation can meet a canopy-based forest definition. Whether land was forest in 2020 sometimes needs records, not only imagery.

Cloud

Over the wet tropics the clearest image near the cutoff can be weeks or months away from it. Every result reports the actual image dates used.

The full method is published: EUDR screening methodology.

How it works

  1. Send your plots as a spreadsheet of coordinates, a shapefile, GeoJSON, GeoPackage or KML.
  2. We screen every plot against the 31 December 2020 cutoff and check the results against what the method can and cannot see for your commodity and region.
  3. You receive a per-plot PDF, a summary table and a plain statement of the limits that apply to your plots.

Request a screening

Tell us a little about your plots and we will reply with a quote. Nothing is screened or charged until you agree.