EUDR for timber, beyond the old EUTR paperwork
Wood and wood products (HS 44, plus furniture, pulp and paper in Annex I) moved from the EU Timber Regulation to EUDR, and the bar went up: due diligence is no longer enough on its own — you now need the geolocation of the harvest area and a statement in TRACES.
What changed from EUTR to EUDR
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Geolocation is new. EUTR asked for a risk-based system; EUDR asks where the wood was cut. Harvest areas are almost always over 4 hectares, so they must be given as polygons, not points.
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The cut-off is new. Wood is compliant only if the land was not deforested after 31 December 2020 and — for timber specifically — the forest was not degraded after that date either.
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The filing is new. A due diligence statement goes into TRACES before placing the goods on the market, and its reference number travels with the consignment. Species (scientific and common name) and either net mass or volume are declared with it.
Where timber importers get caught out
Furniture and panel imports are the blind spot: the wood may have crossed three countries and two processing steps before it reaches you, and the harvest polygon still has to come back through that chain. Start asking your supplier for it well before the deadline, not after.
What small importers ask us first
Does EUDR cover furniture and paper, or only raw timber?
Annex I of the Regulation lists wood products well beyond sawn timber — including panels, pulp, paper and furniture. If your product is in Annex I, the geolocation of the harvest area is required no matter how many processing steps sit in between.
What counts as forest degradation for wood?
The Regulation defines it as structural changes to forest cover — primary or naturally regenerating forest converted to plantation forest or to other wooded land — after 31 December 2020. It is an additional test that applies to wood, on top of the deforestation test that applies to every commodity.
My harvest area is a large polygon. Can I still scan it here?
Yes. Paste the boundary as “latitude, longitude” lines or upload a GeoJSON polygon. Very large boundaries take longer to analyse; if the free scan times out, that is a queue limit rather than a verdict, and the paid plans run it as a background job.
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.