The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) asks for the latitude and longitude of every plot where the commodity was produced, to six decimal places, with the date or period of production. Plots larger than four hectares need a polygon tracing the boundary. For cattle, every establishment that kept the animals is located, and a single point is enough.
What counts as one plot?
A plot of land is land within a single real-estate property, as the country of production’s law recognises it, with uniform conditions; one property can hold more than one plot. So the land-title or cadastral reference is worth recording with the coordinates.
Example: two coffee plots
Example. A coffee farm has a 3-hectare plot and a 5-hectare plot. The first can be located with a single point to six decimal places; the second needs a polygon around its perimeter. Each harvest lot then carries the plot it came from and its harvest date or period.
What if one plot was deforested?
Any deforestation or forest degradation on a listed plot disqualifies everything produced there. The cut-off date answer explains how the date is judged.
Are there simpler routes?
Small producers that qualify as micro or small primary operators, in a country classified as low risk, may give the postal address of their plots or establishment instead of coordinates. The Commission’s FAQ, as summarised in its review of 4 May 2026, accepts cadastral information or an equivalent for them too.
What is still open?
The four-hectare polygon threshold is one of the points named for the regulation’s general review, due by 30 June 2030. The information system’s file format and upload limits sit in its technical documentation; the Commission’s review noted that stakeholders asked for a file limit larger than the current 25 MB.
Where this comes from: Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, Articles 2(27), 2(28) and 9(1)(d) and Annex II; Regulation (EU) 2025/2650, Article 1; Commission simplification review, COM(2026) 191, sections 2.3, 3.2.5 and 4.1.2.
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Reviewed by Team GreenSutra on 26 October 2026.