Notes on making EUDR workable

Written for the people who have to run the process. Every regulatory statement traces to a named official source, drafts are called drafts, and we do not publish a CN code list because any list we wrote would be out of date before you used it.

Ten mistakes we keep seeing in EUDR programmes

Drawn from operational projects where the same pattern repeats: the regulation is understood, and the process still fails.

Practice

6 Aug 2026

7 min

Getting suppliers to respond, from people who have done it at scale

Response rate is the variable that decides whether you finish. Almost everything that improves it reduces effort rather than increasing pressure.

Practice

5 Aug 2026

5 min

Why the spreadsheet stops working at about forty suppliers

Everyone starts in Excel and it is the right first move. Here is where it breaks, and the signals that you have reached that point.