Severity: Error. The Information System rejects the file, or silently stores something other than what you meant.
Fixed automatically?: Yes, in one click. The change is listed in the change log.
In short: Correct the spelling and the capitals. We can rename every occurrence at once.

What the Information System does

It does not recognise them. Invalid property names ("incorrect property keyword case – "productionplace" instead of "ProductionPlace"") are one of the common file errors (GeoJSON File Description, Common errors 9), and "any other properties that are syntactically valid but not included in the optional properties list … will be ignored" (GeoJSON File Description, Definitions). A misspelled geometry means the feature has no shape.

Why it happens

The Information System reads exactly four properties, spelled exactly like this:

Property	What it holds
`ProducerName`	The producer's name
`ProducerCountry`	Two-letter ISO country code
`ProductionPlace`	A name for the plot
`Area`	Hectares, as a number (used for points)

Anything else is ignored, including productionPlace, Producer_Name, area_ha and Country. The trouble is that "ignored" is silent. A file with area instead of Area is accepted, and every point in it is treated as four hectares.

The checker compares each property name against the four and flags names within a couple of letters of one of them, or differing only in capitals. The specification's own list of mistakes includes geomerty, a misspelled geometry, which leaves the feature with no shape at all.

A broken example

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {
        "ProducerCountry": "CI",
        "productionplace": "Wrong case",
        "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:

"productionplace" is ignored because property names are case-sensitive. It has to be written exactly "ProductionPlace"., line 8, column 9

Before. Centred on 6.1240° N, 5.1230° W.

After the fix. Renamed "productionplace" to "ProductionPlace" on plot 1. Centred on 6.1240° N, 5.1230° W.

Fix it in EUDRplot

Open the file in the checker. Every near miss is listed with the name it was probably meant to be.
Rename them. Choose Correct the property name, or Fix N safe problems to rename every occurrence at once. Values are not touched.

Fix it in QGIS

Rename the fields. Run Refactor fields from the Processing Toolbox. In the field mapping, set the output names to exactly ProducerName, ProducerCountry, ProductionPlace and Area.
Export. Save the refactored layer as GeoJSON in EPSG:4326.

Try it: check the example, or your own file

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Sources

EUDR GeoJSON File Description (EUDR Information System help, updated 17 August 2026), Common errors 9, European Commission
EUDR GeoJSON File Description (EUDR Information System help, updated 17 August 2026), Definitions, European Commission

Rule PROP-001, 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.