Note PROP-008
ProductionPlace missing: name your plots
The specification recommends naming the production place. Without a name, tracing a query back to a specific farm is manual work.
- Severity
- Note. Accepted as it is. Worth knowing before you submit.
- Fixed automatically?
- No, this needs a decision only you can make.
- In short
- Add a ProductionPlace with the farm or plot name.
What the Information System does
It accepts the plot without it. The specification recommends it: "It is recommended to provide the optional GeoJSON property "ProductionPlace" … This optional property is used to describe the production place name" (GeoJSON File Description, File Variants Description, important notes).
Why it happens
This is a note, not an error: the file is accepted without it. But a statement may be questioned years after it was submitted, and "plot 214 in the file" is much harder to trace back to a farm than "Parcelle Akoupé 1".
A name also helps the person checking the file today. The checker, the map and the PDF report all use ProductionPlace to label plots.
A broken example
{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"features": [
{
"type": "Feature",
"properties": {
"ProducerCountry": "CI",
"Area": 1.2287
},
"geometry": {
"type": "Polygon",
"coordinates": [
[
[-5.123456, 6.123456],
[-5.122456, 6.123456],
[-5.122456, 6.124456],
[-5.123456, 6.124456],
[-5.123456, 6.123456]
]
]
}
}
]
}What the checker reports for this file:
Fix it in EUDRplot
- Open the file in the checker. Plots without a name are listed as notes.
- Add a name. Add
"ProductionPlace": "Parcelle Akoupé 1", whatever the farm or plot is called locally, to each feature's properties.
Fix it in QGIS
- Fill it from an existing column. Field Calculator: create a text field
ProductionPlacefrom the column that holds the plot or farm name, for example"farm_name" || ' ' || "plot_no".
Try it: check the example, or your own file
Drop a GeoJSON, KML, shapefile or CSV here, or .
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Sources
- EUDR GeoJSON File Description (EUDR Information System help, updated 17 August 2026), File Variants Description, important notes, European Commission
Rule PROP-008, 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 .