Reg. (EU) 2023/1115 · oil palm is a covered commodity · large and medium operators in scope from 30 Dec 2026 · land must be deforestation-free after 31 Dec 2020.
Oil palm is one of the seven EUDR commodities, and its derivatives — crude palm oil, palm kernel oil, and a long annex of downstream products — inherit the obligation. Every consignment placed on the EU market needs a due-diligence statement backed by geolocation coordinates for every plantation plot, proving no deforestation after 31 December 2020. For a commodity blended and refined across thousands of smallholder plots, segregating provenance is the entire problem.
Coordinates for every plantation plot that grew the fruit — for plots over four hectares, polygons rather than points. Mill-level averages do not satisfy the regulation.
A DDS filed in the EU information system before placing the product on the market, referencing the geolocation data and legality evidence for the producing plots.
Refined fractions, oleochemicals and blends inherit scope from their palm content — the DDS obligation follows the molecule through refining, not just the crude oil shipment.
Dealer networks aggregating thousands of smallholder plots must preserve plot identity through collection points and mills — the step where provenance traditionally dies.
Large and medium operators come into scope on 30 December 2026; micro and small enterprises follow on 30 June 2027, under the postponement in Regulation (EU) 2025/2650. The land-use cut-off is fixed at 31 December 2020 regardless of operator size.
Map which volumes trace to polygon-verified plots today and which dissolve into mass-balance at the mill — that gap is your exposure.
Bind identity where fruit changes hands the first time. Everything downstream can be reconciled; nothing upstream can be recovered.
A consignment's DDS should compile from captured plot and custody data — hand-built statements do not scale to weekly shipments.
Aeroz binds identity to physical units from collection point to refinery gate, appending custody events to an EPCIS 2.0 log with plot geolocation attached at origin. The due-diligence statement becomes a query over captured data — and the same trace answers customer and CSDDD audits without a second system.
Oil palm fruit, crude palm and palm kernel oil, and a broad annex of derivatives including refined fractions and many oleochemical products — scope follows the palm content downstream.
Every plot of land where the fruit was grown: a point for plots under four hectares, polygon boundaries above that. Mill or estate centroids are not sufficient.
Products must come from land not deforested after 31 December 2020, and production must comply with the producing country's laws — both proven, not presumed.
No — certification schemes can support due diligence but do not replace it. The regulation requires plot-level traceability for the actual consignment, which mass-balance by definition does not provide.
A fixed-fee Aeroz audit maps your products against eudr for palm oil requirements and returns a written readiness assessment, a data-mapping review, and a scoped pilot plan with cost and timeline.