EUDR geolocation for wood: concessions, forest degradation and large polygons

Wood covers the longest list in Annex I: logs, sawn wood, panels, pulp and paper, furniture, packaging and more (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, Annex I). Printed products were removed by the 2025 amendment (Regulation (EU) 2025/2650, Art. 1), and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102 clarifies that waste, used and second-hand products are outside several entries (Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102).

One extra test

For wood, deforestation-free also means harvested "without inducing forest degradation after 31 December, 2020" (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, Art. 2(13)), for example, primary forest turned into plantation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, Art. 2(7)). The exact boundary of the harvest area matters, because different parts of a concession can have different histories.

What wood files tend to look like

• Large polygons. Forest management units and concessions are far above four hectares (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, Art. 2(28)), and their boundaries are detailed.
• Holes. Concessions routinely exclude conservation areas, villages or other titles from inside their boundary, drawn as holes, which the Information System rejects.
• Projected coordinates from forestry GIS.

Problems to look for

• This plot has a hole in it (GEOM-005): exclusions drawn as holes; the hole splitter redraws them as pieces without holes.
• The file is larger than 25 MB (FILE-003): detailed boundaries over 25 MB.
• These coordinates are not in WGS84 degrees (COORD-006): UTM or national grids.
• One shape inside this MultiPolygon is invalid (GEOM-007): one bad part in a multi-part concession.