EUDR: What if part of a product is non-compliant?

Before a relevant product is put on the market or exported, any non-compliant portion must be found and isolated from the rest of the product. In some cases, the non-compliant portion may not even be exported.

The entire relevant product is non-compliant if identification and separation are impossible, for example because the non-compliant products have been combined with the others, and it cannot be ensured that the requirements of Article 3 of the Regulation are fulfilled. As a result, it cannot be sold or exported. For example, if several hundred plots of land are connected to mixed bulk commodities, and one of those plots has been deforested after 2020, the entire relevant product would not comply.

This does not negate the existence of other circumstances, as defined by the regulations, in which all relevant products or commodities that are placed on the market are: 1) able to be traced back to the land; 2) compliant with the regulations and free of deforestation; and 3) have never been combined with non-deforestation or unknown-origin goods.

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