Severity: Error. The Information System rejects the file, or silently stores something other than what you meant.
Fixed automatically?: No, this needs a decision only you can make.
In short: Check that your export included the layer you meant to export.

What the Information System does

A FeatureCollection with an empty features list is valid GeoJSON (RFC 7946, §3.3) but declares nothing. Where production places are given, the Information System requires their geolocation (Information System validation rules, Mandatory geolocation), so an empty file provides none.

Why it happens

{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": []} is perfectly valid and useless. It is the geolocation equivalent of an empty envelope.

It is nearly always an export problem: the wrong layer, a filter that matched nothing, a "selected features only" box left ticked, or a spreadsheet conversion where no row had readable coordinates. The fix is at the source.

A broken example

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": []
}

What the checker reports for this file:

The features list is empty, so this file declares no plots at all., line 3, column 15

Fix it in EUDRplot

Confirm it is empty. The checker reports zero plots. Nothing is drawn on the map.
Export again. Go back to the program that made the file. Most empty exports come from exporting the wrong layer, or exporting selected features only with nothing selected.

Fix it in QGIS

Check the layer has features. Right-click the layer › Show Feature Count. If it shows zero, the problem is in the data, not the export.
Export all features. Right-click › Export › Save Features As…, and make sure Save only selected features is not ticked.

Try it: check the example, or your own file

Drop a GeoJSON, KML, shapefile or CSV here, or .

Open the full checker

Checked in your browser. The file is not uploaded, stored or sent anywhere.

Sources

RFC 7946: The GeoJSON Format, §3.3, Internet Engineering Task Force
EUDR Information System: Validation Rules, Mandatory geolocation, European Commission

Rule STRU-007, rule set 2026.09.2. The same rule runs in the checker, the free tools and the command-line tool.

Last verified against these sources on 23 September 2026.