EUDR for Brazilian soy: farm polygons and lot-to-farm links for EU buyers

EUDR for Brazil soy exporters: what changes on 30 December 2026

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR, Regulation (EU) 2023/1115) applies from 30 December 2026 to large and medium EU operators and traders, and from 30 June 2027 to micro and small enterprises (Regulation (EU) 2025/2650). From those dates, an EU company may only place soy (soya beans HS 1201, soya flour and meal 1208 10, soya-bean oil 1507, oil-cake 2304 – Annex I as amended by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102) on the EU market if it is deforestation-free (no deforestation after 31 December 2020), produced legally under the laws of Brazil, and covered by a due diligence statement (DDS).

As a supplier in Brazil you normally do not submit the DDS yourself – your EU buyer does. But the buyer can only do that with your data: geolocation of every plot, harvest dates, quantities, land and legality documents. That is why EU importers are now sending soy suppliers questionnaires, Excel templates and GeoJSON requests. This kit gives you one organised place to prepare those answers.

Brazil is not listed in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1093, so it has the default standard risk level. EU operators must run full due diligence (information, risk assessment, risk mitigation) – expect detailed questions and document requests.

What EU buyers ask their suppliers for

Records must be kept for 5 years (Art. 9(1)). The kit does not replace your buyer's own template – it helps you fill any template quickly and consistently.

EUDR geolocation for soy farms in Brazil: the rules that trip suppliers up

Soy farms are almost always larger than 4 ha, so every production plot needs a polygon. Traders and crushers must link each vessel or batch of beans, meal or oil to all farms that supplied it – the lot-to-plot tab (up to 600 links per file) is designed for this, and the checker flags polygons that are open, self-intersecting or have too few vertices.

EUDR due diligence statement: what a soy supplier must give the EU buyer

The DDS is filed by the EU operator in the EU information system. It references the geolocation and product data you supply. In practice buyers ask for three deliverables per shipment: (1) a plot list or GeoJSON file, (2) a lot-to-plot link showing which plots supplied each container, and (3) evidence of deforestation-free and legal production. Tabs 02, 04 and 05 of the workbook produce exactly these, and tab 07 counts inconsistencies before you send anything.

Typical Brazilian evidence: CAR number, property registration (matrícula / CCIR), environmental licences, embargo-list checks, labour-compliance records, silo and crushing-plant records, and a land-use-change screening against the 2020 baseline.

Brazilian soy in EU trade

Eurostat Comext shows the EU imported about €3.5 billion of soybean meal/oil-cake (HS 2304) and €2.3 billion of soybeans (HS 1201) from Brazil in 2025. Most of it is shipped by large traders; this kit is aimed at farms, cooperatives, originators and mid-size traders who must answer their customers' data requests.

Sample: plot register with automatic checks (Brazil soy, fictional data)

This is a live extract of the filled example workbook included in the kit. The CHECK columns are Excel formulas – they flag missing decimals, plots needing polygons, locations outside the country, duplicates and date errors.

All names, coordinates and documents in the example are fictional.

What's inside the ZIP

• EUDR Buyer Response Workbook (.xlsx) – 9 tabs: intake, plot register (300 rows), geolocation checklist, lots & plot links (60 lots / 600 links), evidence register, buyer questionnaire, inconsistency checks, sources & change log; bilingual English + Portuguese
• Filled EXAMPLE workbook – fictional Brazil soy data with deliberate errors to learn from
• Offline geolocation checker (.html) – paste coordinates or open a GeoJSON file; checks decimals, polygon closure, self-intersections, country bounding box; exports a clean GeoJSON
• Buyer questionnaire response (.docx) – pre-structured answers mapped to Art. 9 and Art. 10
• Quick-start guide (.pdf) – one-page workflow
• Buyer email templates (.txt) – request, reply and follow-up
• Sample GeoJSON – correct structure with points and a polygon

FAQ

Official sources

Checked on 29 September 2026. Links open the official EU pages.

1. Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 (EUDR), consolidated text incl. Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 – EUR-Lex, consolidated 26 Dec 2025
2. Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 amending the EUDR (application dates) – Official Journal of the EU, 23 Dec 2025
3. Regulation on deforestation-free products – application dates – European Commission, DG ENV, checked 29 Sep 2026
4. Delay until December 2026 and other developments in the implementation of the EUDR – European Commission, Access2Markets, 28 Jan 2026
5. EUDR Information System – GeoJSON File Description – European Commission (TRACES), updated 17 Aug 2026
6. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1093 – country benchmarking – EUR-Lex, 22 May 2025
7. EUDR implementation – how the EUDR applies outside the EU – European Commission, Green Forum, checked 29 Sep 2026
8. FAQ – EUDR implementation – European Commission, see page
9. Eurostat Comext – EU imports by partner and product (DS-045409), 2025 – Eurostat, dataset updated 15 Sep 2026