EUDR guide for exporters
EUDR guide for natural rubber exporters
Under the EU Deforestation Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115), the company that brings your natural rubber into the EU has to collect your plot data before the goods reach customs. This guide sums up what it will ask you for. Print it or save it as a PDF and share it with your team.
Which products are covered
Natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) and articles such as compounded unvulcanised rubber, inner tubes, new tyres and new treads. Synthetic rubber is out, and so are several vulcanised articles removed in 2026.
What is specific to natural rubber
- A point or polygon for every plantation that delivered latex to the lot. Buyers need the plantations themselves, not only the middleman who bought the cup lump.
- The processing plant has to say which latex deliveries went into each production lot of bales, and tyre makers which natural rubber lots went into each order.
- Tapping is continuous, so the production date is a range: when the latex for that lot was collected.
What a natural rubber buyer will ask you for
Dealer and collection records
Which dealers or collection points bought the latex or cup lump, from which growers and on which dates.
Grower and plantation list
Each grower’s name, the plantation name or code and its area in hectares.
The plantation file
GeoJSON with a point for each plantation up to 4 ha and a polygon above that, with six decimals.
Factory production lots
For block rubber, sheets or latex concentrate: which raw material deliveries went into each production lot.
Lot-to-order link for products
For compounded rubber, inner tubes or tyres: which natural rubber lots went into each order.
Tapping period
The range of dates when the latex in the lot was collected.
Land and permits
Land rights and environmental and labour documents for the plantations. Your buyer decides what it needs.
Example: a lot of TSR 20 bales
A processing factory buys cup lump from dealers who collect it from smallholders in several villages. It makes block rubber (TSR 20) and sells a container of bales to a tyre maker in the EU.
The factory traces the production lot in the container back to the raw material deliveries and, through the dealers’ records, to the growers. Each plantation goes into the GeoJSON with the grower’s name: most are small and go in as points with their Area, a few larger ones as polygons.
The buyer receives the file, the lot number, the tapping period and the land documents. A dealer delivery that cannot be traced to growers has to be kept out of that production lot.
Mistakes that get natural rubber data sent back
- Stopping at the dealer. The dealer’s warehouse is not a plantation.
- One point for a grower with several separate plantations.
- A single tapping date for a lot collected over several weeks. Give the range.
- Untraced cup lump mixed into a traced production lot.
Key dates
- 31 December 2020: cut-off date. Land deforested after this date cannot supply the EU market. It does not move with the postponements.
- 30 December 2026: large and medium-sized EU companies must comply, and so must every company for timber products that were under the old EU Timber Regulation.
- 30 June 2027: micro and small EU companies.
Questions from natural rubber exporters
Our compound also contains synthetic rubber. Does that part need plot data?
No. Only natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) is covered. For a blend, whether the product is in scope depends on its CN code; if it is, the buyer needs the plantations of the natural rubber in it.
We sell tyres to the EU. What will the buyer ask for?
New tyres are in Annex I, so the buyer needs the origin of the natural rubber in them: the plantations, traced through the rubber lots that went into each order. Factory data alone is not enough.
Old rubber trees are cut and replanted. Will that look like deforestation?
Replanting a plantation that already existed in 2020 can show up as tree cover loss on satellite layers. The buyer treats it as a signal to check, not as proof of deforestation. The planting history of the plantation helps it explain the change.
Can we send plantation data once a year?
The locations stay valid while the plantations do not change. What the buyer needs for each lot is which plantations supplied it and the tapping period, so the delivery records have to be kept lot by lot.
The basics, for every product
Whatever the product, the EU buyer needs the same base data: where each plot is (a point up to 4 ha, a polygon above, six decimals), who produced there and in which country, when it was harvested, and information showing that the land was not deforested after 31 December 2020 and that production followed the law of your country.
How to prepare this data and share it with all your buyers