Reg. (EU) 2023/1115 · cattle, beef and leather (incl. hides and skins) in scope · large and medium operators from 30 Dec 2026 · cut-off 31 Dec 2020.
Cattle is the EUDR commodity with the hardest traceability ask: the animal moves. Beef, hides and finished leather placed on the EU market need due diligence covering every plot where the animal was raised — birth farm, fattening, finishing — proving none was deforested after 31 December 2020. For leather goods and footwear brands, the obligation arrives through the tannery: a handbag's DDS reaches back to a ranch the brand has never heard of.
Geolocation is required for every establishment where the cattle were kept — indirect suppliers included. Slaughterhouse-only traceability, the industry norm, does not reach the standard.
Raw hides, tanned leather and listed leather products carry the cattle obligation — tanneries and leather-goods importers file or reference the DDS.
Production must comply with local law — land rights, environmental and labour rules — in every producing country the animal passed through.
A DDS per consignment in the EU information system before placing on the market, with the establishment geolocations attached.
Large and medium operators come into scope on 30 December 2026; micro and small enterprises on 30 June 2027. Leather lead times mean hides tanned today become 2028 EU handbags — the obligation is already flowing through inventory.
Most cattle systems see the last farm before slaughter. List what share of your hide supply can name the birth and fattening establishments — that is the compliance gap.
Hides are individually handled from slaughter through tanning — bind identity there and the leather chain can carry establishment data to the finished good.
Tanneries, traders and brands each need the upstream establishment data contractually — write it into purchase terms now, before 2027 collections are committed.
Aeroz binds chip identity at the hide or wet-blue stage and appends every custody event through tanning, cutting and assembly to an EPCIS 2.0 log with establishment geolocations attached at origin. The finished leather good resolves — via GS1 Digital Link — to its own provenance, serving the DDS, the brand's authenticity story, and resale verification from the same tap.
Yes — cattle scope covers beef, raw hides and skins, tanned leather and listed leather articles. Importers of leather and leather goods carry due-diligence obligations.
Geolocation of every establishment where the animals were raised — not just the final farm. This is the deepest traceability ask of any EUDR commodity.
By requiring establishment-level data and DDS references upstream, and verifying them — downstream reliance does not remove the duty to check due diligence was properly done.
Yes — land deforested for pasture after 31 December 2020 disqualifies the cattle raised on it, which is why plot history, not current land use, is the test.
A fixed-fee Aeroz audit maps your products against eudr for cattle & leather requirements and returns a written readiness assessment, a data-mapping review, and a scoped pilot plan with cost and timeline.