Cut-off date (31 December 2020) | EUDR glossary
The EUDR cut-off date is 31 December 2020. Where it comes from in the regulation, and what it has to do with geolocation.
that the relevant products contain, have been fed with or have been made using, relevant commodities that were produced on land that has not been subject to deforestation after 31 December, 2020
"Cut-off date" is not itself a defined term in the regulation. The date appears in the definition of deforestation-free: products must come from land not deforested after 31 December 2020 (and, for wood, harvested without forest degradation after that date).
Geolocation is what makes the date checkable. With the plot's boundary, anyone can compare the land against forest cover as it was at the end of 2020, for example the EU Joint Research Centre's Global Forest Cover 2020 map (JRC Global Forest Cover 2020). A point with the wrong coordinates, or a polygon in the wrong place, is checked against the wrong land.
The 2025 amendment set a general review for 2030 that considers, among other things, the cut-off date for other wooded land; we found no change to the date itself (Regulation (EU) 2025/2650, Art. 1).
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 (the EU Deforestation Regulation), Art. 2(13), Official Journal of the European Union, L 150, 9.6.2023
- Global Forest Cover 2020 (GFC2020), V4, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, Art. 1, Official Journal of the European Union, 23.12.2025
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