EUDR applies to both raw materials and certain products made from them. The regulation covers specific raw commodities, such as:
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Rubber
- Wood
- Cattle
- Soya
- Oil Palm
The regulation calls the products made from them “derived products”: finished or semi-finished goods that come from the listed raw materials. For example:
- Cocoa → chocolate
- Coffee beans → roasted coffee
- Rubber → tyres
- Wood → furniture
- Cattle hide → leather
The regulation lists the covered derived products one by one. Whether a product is in scope depends on its Combined Nomenclature (CN) code, not on what it looks like or how it is marketed. Two similar-looking products can therefore be treated differently if their CN codes differ.
On 18 September 2026, a Commission act changing the list of covered products came into force. It took cattle hides, skins and leather out of the regulation’s scope, so the leather example above no longer applies.
The EUDR Guide covers compliance in detail.
Where this comes from: Annex I of the EU Deforestation Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended.