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Readings in sentences and a place to record your decision.
Find out whether you submit statements or keep references, then screen three plots for free.
One question decides most of it: do you bring the commodity into the EU yourself, or buy it from a company in the EU that already did?
You are a trader. Roasting green coffee keeps it in heading 0901, and refining crude palm oil keeps it in heading 1511. You submit no statement. You keep the names and addresses of your suppliers and customers, and the reference numbers of the statements your supplier submitted, for at least five years.
Commission FAQ 3.1.1, Art. 5(3) and (4)
Making chocolate (1806) from cocoa beans (1801), or crushing soya beans into soya-bean oil (1507) and oilcake (2304), makes you a downstream operator. You submit no statement either. The same records apply, and a company that is not an SME also registers in the Information System.
Art. 2(15b), Art. 5(2) to (4)
You are an operator. You collect the Article 9 information, assess the risk under Article 10 and submit the statement before the product is placed on the market. Konstata screens the plots and prepares the statement.
Art. 4, Art. 9, Art. 10
Operators that are natural persons or micro or small undertakings, established as such by 31 December 2024, have until 30 June 2027, except for products already covered by the EU Timber Regulation. Size is judged per legal entity.
Regulation (EU) 2025/2650
If your supplier is an EU operator, it submits the statement. You still keep the details of your suppliers and the reference numbers of their statements for five years.
Art. 5, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650
Your supplier opens a link without an account. The screening comes back as sentences.
Three plots are free with no card. A 20 minute call sizes the licence to your volume.
Three of your own plots, screened against the named sources, with the readings written out in sentences.
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| Sign-in | An email link |
Readings in sentences and a place to record your decision.
Each answer cites its article and links the guide that goes further.
The first to place a product on the EU market or to export it is an operator, anyone later is a trader unless processing creates a new relevant product. The first four digits of the customs code decide, so roasting green coffee within heading 0901 leaves a roaster a trader. Making chocolate (1806) from cocoa beans (1801) does create a new relevant product, and its maker is a downstream operator, which submits no statement either.
Commission FAQ 3.1.1, Art. 2(15b), Art. 5
From 30 December 2026 for large and medium companies and from 30 June 2027 for micro and small ones, as set by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650. Size is judged as at 31 December 2024 and per legal entity.
Regulation (EU) 2025/2650
Five years from the date of placing on the market or export, and the records must be retrievable by consignment and by plot.
Art. 12
Yes, the Commission FAQ allows collection through cooperatives, exporters or certifiers, but you remain responsible for it being correct. Start with the cooperative's own data, screen it, and send field staff only to the plots that need it.
Commission FAQ 1.10 to 1.12
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