EUDR for cocoa, from the farm up
Cocoa beans (HS 1801) and the products made from them — paste, butter, powder, chocolate — are all in scope, so the obligation follows the beans through processing. Scan the farms behind your beans and see whether the origin holds up.
Free scans are capped at 5 plots per scan and 3 scans a day, so the satellite quota stays available to everyone. Paid plans include a monthly screening allowance.
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What EUDR actually asks a cocoa buyer for
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Geolocation of every farm the beans were grown on. Cocoa smallholdings are typically well under 4 hectares, so a point plus its area is usually enough — but it must be a real coordinate to six decimals, not a village centroid.
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Evidence of no deforestation after 31 December 2020 on those farms, and of production in line with the producing country’s laws — land tenure and protected-area rules included.
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A due diligence statement in TRACES before the goods are placed on the market, with the reference number kept for five years. Processed cocoa products inherit the obligation: if you import butter or chocolate, the plots behind it still have to be declared.
Where cocoa buyers get caught out
Volumes get pooled early. Beans from thousands of farms may be mixed at the cooperative before you ever see them, and a mixed lot is only as compliant as its worst plot — which is why screening every declared farm, rather than sampling, is the safer default.
What small importers ask us first
I import chocolate, not beans. Am I still covered?
Yes. Products derived from cocoa are listed in Annex I of the Regulation, and the operator placing them on the EU market must file a due diligence statement covering the plots the cocoa came from. In practice that means getting the geolocation from your supplier, or their statement reference if they already filed it.
My supplier says the beans are certified. Is that enough?
No. Certification schemes can be useful evidence, but EUDR requires plot geolocation and your own risk assessment. A certificate does not replace the geolocation or the statement.
How many farms can I check here?
The free scan takes up to five plots at a time so the shared satellite quota stays open to everyone. Screening a full supplier base — hundreds or thousands of farms — is what the paid plans and the API are for.
CanopyProof provides compliance tooling, not legal advice. A screening result is evidence you assess, not an official clearance; responsibility under the EU Deforestation Regulation stays with you.