EUDR for cocoa
EUDR software for cocoa and chocolate, plot by plot.
Cocoa beans, paste, butter, powder and chocolate are all in scope. Most cocoa is grown on small farms where forest is never far away. EUDRplot checks the plot files, flags farms that were forest in 2020 and keeps the record per product.
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EUDR for cocoa
What you get
What is covered
HS 1801 to 1806: beans, shells, paste, butter, powder, and chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa.
Forest check
Cocoa often borders forest. Each plot against the EU's 2020 forest map and loss since.
Overlapping files
Farmers sell to more than one buyer. Plots declared by two cooperatives are flagged.
Monitoring
Weekly alerts on cocoa plots, where clearing is often small and gradual.
Points and polygons
Small farms as points with their area, larger ones as polygons.
Downstream chocolate makers
Buying cocoa inside the EU, you keep reference numbers, not statements.
What cocoa files look like
Cooperative and exporter files with many small farms, mapped by field agents with phones, often a mix of points and walked boundaries. National traceability systems in producer countries produce their own exports, in their own formats.
The problems to expect
The same farm declared by two cooperatives, because farmers sell to more than one. Plots that were forest on the 2020 map, which need evidence and an assessment. Polygons walked around farms with an extra loop. Missing areas on points.
Chocolate and the chain
Chocolate is in scope, so the chain runs from the farm to the bar. The importer of beans or semi-finished products is the operator; chocolate makers buying inside the EU are downstream operators. Each keeps what the regulation asks of its role, and EUDRplot holds both.
Questions
Is chocolate covered by the EUDR?
Yes. HS 1806, chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa, is in Annex I.
Does a chocolate maker file statements?
If it imports cocoa, yes, as the operator. If it buys cocoa products already covered by a statement inside the EU, it is a downstream operator and keeps the reference numbers.
What if a farm partly overlaps forest on the 2020 map?
It is a risk to assess, not an automatic ban: the map is an indicator. Gather evidence of the land's use at the end of 2020, and record it in the assessment.
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