EUDR & traceability
Traceable Coffee for European Supply Chains
What we do not claim
We do not describe any lot as “EUDR compliant”, because compliance is a property of an operator’s due diligence process rather than of a parcel of coffee. Nothing in this section is legal advice, and no application dates or thresholds are quoted here — the regulation and its timeline have been amended, so the current requirements should be taken from the official text and your own advisers.
- Step 1
Farm / plot
Producer identity, plot geolocation
- Step 2
Wet mill / station
Delivery record, day lot
- Step 3
Dry mill
Outturn or milling batch number
- Step 4
Warehouse
Lot identity, storage conditions
- Step 5
Container
Bag count, seal number, stuffing record
Guides
What the data actually involves
Four pages covering the regulation’s shape, how traceability works physically, what plot geolocation collection requires at smallholder origins, and what a supplier can hand to your due diligence process.
- EUDR and CoffeeThe EU Deforestation Regulation places due diligence obligations on the operator placing coffee on the EU market — not on the exporter. What an origin supplier can do is provide the underlying data: plot geolocation, supply chain documentation and lot traceability, in a form the operator can use in its own due diligence statement.
- Coffee TraceabilityTraceability in coffee is a chain of records linking plot, washing station, dry mill, warehouse and container. Identity is preserved by keeping lots physically separate and documenting each transfer. The practical ceiling is set by where aggregation happens — usually at the washing station, which is why the station is the standard unit of East African traceability.
- Coffee Plot GeolocationPlot geolocation records where coffee was produced, as either a point coordinate or a boundary polygon. Collection is a field exercise: someone visits each plot with a GPS-enabled device. Across a smallholder base of hundreds or thousands of farms, that is a substantial programme that must be planned before the harvest.
- Due Diligence Data for CoffeeDue diligence is the operator’s process. An origin supplier supports it by providing structured information about the consignment — supply chain documentation, lot identity, producer group records, legality documentation and, where collected, plot geolocation — in a format the operator’s system can ingest.
- Deforestation-Free CoffeeA deforestation-free claim is an evidence-based statement that the land producing a commodity was not deforested after an applicable cut-off date. It requires plot location data cross-referenced against forest cover analysis — it is not something a supplier can assert on the strength of general practice.
What we can supply
Origin data, stated accurately
Availability differs by origin and by lot. We would rather say that than promise uniform coverage.
- Lot-level traceability
- Station or factory identity, delivery period and milling batch — available across all six origins.
- Producer group identity
- Cooperative, AMCOS or washing station catchment, with registration records.
- Plot geolocation
- Where the producer organisation holds it, or where collection has been arranged for the programme ahead of the harvest.
- Supply chain documentation
- The chain of custody records linking plot, station, mill, warehouse and container.
- Legality documentation
- Registration and licensing records held by the producer organisation and the exporter.
- Structured data export
- CSV or JSON in the format your due diligence system requires, agreed at contract stage.
Raise traceability requirements before the harvest
Plot-level geolocation is a field exercise, and it cannot be reconstructed after cherry has been aggregated at a washing station. If a programme needs plot data, that has to be agreed ahead of the crop it applies to — not when the container is being booked.