EUDR Advisory / Traceability

Helping African Exporters Navigate EUDR

Prepare your supply chain for Europe’s evolving sustainability and traceability requirements, before a buyer makes it a condition of the contract.

What the regulation
asks of you

The obligation

Products entering the EU must be traceable to the land they came from, produced in line with the law of the producing country, and not linked to deforestation after the regulation’s cut-off date. The obligation is documentary. What decides whether a shipment moves is whether the evidence exists and holds together.

It applies most directly to cocoa, coffee, rubber, wood and palm oil, together with a range of derived products — which covers a large share of what Cameroon and the wider region sell into Europe.

Six stages, in the order
they have to happen

Each stage depends on the one before it. Most firms that struggle do so because they attempted stage four without completing stage two.

The route

Identify products

Establish which of your products fall inside scope, and whether you act as operator, downstream operator or trader.

Map the supply chain

Trace every intermediary from the point of EU placement back to the producing plot.

Geolocation & traceability

Collect plot coordinates, with polygons for larger plots, and connect them to volumes and suppliers.

Assess risk

Document the risk of non-compliance across country, sub-national, supply chain and data-reliability factors.

Prepare due diligence

Assemble legality evidence, design mitigation measures and prepare the statement your buyer will rely on.

Access the EU market

Ship with a defensible evidence file behind every consignment, and a system that repeats next season.

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Commodity view

Where the obligation bites hardest

Cocoa

Hundreds of thousands of smallholdings. Evidence of land tenure is usually harder than geolocation itself.

Coffee

Arabica and Robusta through cooperative unions, where cohort delivery is efficient but data quality varies.

Rubber

Plantation and smallholder mixed supply, requiring two different collection approaches in one chain.

Wood & timber

FLEGT legality systems already exist. The work is the gap between those systems and what EUDR requires.

Palm oil

Plantation operators hold land records, but rarely in a form the regulation will accept without rework.

Derived products

Processed and derived goods can fall in scope even where the raw commodity was bought domestically.

PROCESS

How we can help

01

EUDR readiness assessment

Where you stand against the requirements, and a costed roadmap to close the gap.

02

Supply chain mapping

Every intermediary traced from the point of EU placement back to the producing plot.

03

Traceability advisory

Field protocol, enumerator training, data schema and quality control for plot-level collection.

04

Risk assessment

A documented assessment covering country, sub-national, supply chain and data-reliability factors.

05

Due diligence preparation

Legality evidence pack, mitigation plan, supplier clauses and a record retention framework.

06

Exporter training

Bilingual workshops for staff, suppliers and cooperative members, including trainer-of-trainers.