EUDR Risk Assessment¶

The /eudr_risk_assessment endpoint allows you to retrieve EUDR risk assessment data, according to the EUDR Article 10 clauses.

This endpoint can be called on its own to retrieve Article 10-specific information for a previously uploaded collection. The risk assessment data is also included in the audit trail PDF generated by the /export_eudr_dds endpoint.

Key Considerations¶

The assessment carried out by this API functionlaity is a partial one, in the sense that the audit trail to be provided for potential audits should also consist of supplier-provided evidences and supporting documents which this risk assessment does not cover.

This risk assessment consists in providing supporting information that is not supplier-specific, but rather country or region-specific.

The following Article 10 clauses are addressed in the following way:

a. The assignment of risk to the relevant country of production or parts thereof in accordance with Article 29.

The assignment of risk is to be provided by the European Commission at the end of Q2 2025. As soon as these risk categories are provided by the EU, they will be seamlessly integrated into the risk assessment.

b. The presence of forests in the country of production or parts thereof.

The identification of presence of forests in the country of production or parts thereof is automatically assessed at time of running the deforestation checks on the geo-location data.

c. The presence of indigenous peoples in the country of production or parts thereof.

The Native Land dataset is used to assess the presence of indigenous peoples in the country of production or parts thereof.

d. The consultation and cooperation in good faith with indigenous peoples in the country of production or parts thereof.

If presence of indigenous people is confirmed under 10c, the operator, or party managing compliance on behalf of the operator, must provide further information about consultation and cooperation with indegenous peoples.

e. The existence of duly reasoned claims by indigenous peoples based on objective and verifiable, information regarding the use or ownership of the area used for the purpose of producing the relevant commodity.

If presence of indigenous people is confirmed under 10c, the operator, or party managing compliance on behalf of the operator, must provide further information about the existence of duly reasoned claims regarding the use or ownership of the area used for the purpose of producing the relevant commodity.

f. Prevalence of deforestation or forest degradation in the country of production or parts thereof.

The identification of prevalence of deforestation or forest degradation in the country of production or parts thereof is automatically assessed at time of running the deforestation checks on the geo-location data.

g. The source, reliability, validity, and links to other available documentation of the information referred to in Article 9(1).

All information provided under Article 9 about information requirements is supported by the audit trail PDF document generated, as well as Epoch's system of record, accessible at with login credentials.

h. Concerns in relation to the country of production and origin or parts thereof, such as level of corruption, prevalence of document and data falsification, lack of law enforcement, violations of international human rights, armed conflict or presence of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council or the Council of the European Union.

The following indicators are assessed under this category: - Corruption: Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for the latest available year. - Prevalence of Document and Data Falsification and Lack of law enforcement: World bank's Worldwide Governane Indicators are reported for the latest available year. These include: Voice and Accountability (VA), Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism (PV), Government Effectiveness (GE), Regulatory Quality (RQ), Rule of Law (RL), Control of Corruption (CC). - Violation of international human rights: The Freedom in the World's Freedom Index for the latest available year. - armed conflict: The UCDP database is used to identify countries and parts thereof where conflicts are ongoing. - Presence of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council or the Council of the European Union: Sanctioned Entities in the relevant country by the UN or the EU are listed under this category.

i. The complexity of the relevant supply chain and the stage of processing of the relevant products, in particular difficulties in connecting relevant products to the plot of land where the relevant commodities were produced

The complexity of the relevant supply chain is assessed across the following categories:

Number of Tiers in the supply chain: To be provided by operator/supply chain management software provider
Processing complexity: The following complexity matrix is currently used to identify the complexity of the relevant supply chain:

"soy": {"Typical Processing Stages": "Soybeans → oil, meal → animal feed → meat/dairy",
                "Processing Complexity (1–5)": 4,
                "Notes": "Often mixed, cross-border crushing, feed traceability is hard"},
"oil palm": {"Typical Processing Stages": "Fresh fruit bunches → crude palm oil → refined oil",
                "Processing Complexity (1–5)": 5,
                "Notes": "Highly blended, many processors, smallholders involved"},
"cattle": {"Typical Processing Stages": "Cattle → meat, leather → processed food/fashion",
            "Processing Complexity (1–5)": 5,
            "Notes": "Indirect suppliers common, land linkage is difficult"},
"cocoa": {"Typical Processing Stages": "Cocoa beans → liquor → butter/powder → chocolate",
            "Processing Complexity (1–5)": 4,
            "Notes": "Often mixed at coop/exporter level, many smallholders"},
"coffee": {"Typical Processing Stages": "Cherries → beans → roasted → retail packs",
            "Processing Complexity (1–5)": 3,
            "Notes": "Some traceability via co-ops; roasting adds complexity"},
"rubber": {"Typical Processing Stages": "Latex tapping → sheets → processing → rubber goods",
            "Processing Complexity (1–5)": 4,
            "Notes": "Mixed supply at processors, high smallholder participation"},
"timber": {"Typical Processing Stages": "Logs → lumber/panels/pulp → furniture, paper",
            "Processing Complexity (1–5)": 3,
            "Notes": "Depends on chain of custody; easier with FSC/PEFC"}

Traceability system (directly traceable or mass balance): To be provided by operator/supply chain management software provider
Known land plots: If the deforestation checks were carried out based on the /batch_supply_shed process (i.e. geo-locations were not manually provided, only the agricultural facility location), it is indicated that this was the process followed, as an indicator of additional complexity (i.e. collecting geo-locations for plots manually is difficult due to the size and fragmentation of the supply chain). If the /batch_process endpoint is used, this means geo-locations were exhaustively collected by the supplier, and therefore indicates only low to moderate supply chain complexity, unless the number of geo-located plots is in the 10 000s of location, in which case it is also flagged as a supply chain with a higher degree of complexity.

j. The risk of circumvention of this Regulation or of mixing with relevant products of unknown origin or produced in areas where deforestation or forest degradation has occurred or is occurring.

The risk of circumvention of this Regulation or of mixing with relevant products of unknown origin or produced in areas where deforestation or forest degradation has occurred or is occurring is based on:

The complexity of the supply chain: See 10.i for this assessment.
The prevalence of deforestation and forest degradation in the surrounding regions from where the commodity is sourced. See 10.f for this assessment.

k. Conclusions of the meetings of the Commission expert groups supporting the implementation of this Regulation, as published in the Commission’s expert group register.

The conclusions of the meetings of the Commission expert groups supporting the implementation of this Regulation, as published in the Commission’s expert group register, are to be provided by the European Commission.

l. Substantiated concerns submitted under Article 31, and information on the history of non-compliance of operators or traders along the relevant supply chain with this Regulation.

The substantiated concerns submitted under Article 31, and information on the history of non-compliance of operators or traders along the relevant supply chain with this Regulation, are to be provided by the European Commission.

m. Any information that would point to a risk that the relevant products are non-compliant.

Any information that would point to a risk that the relevant products are non-compliant beyond what has already been provided by the EUDR compliance service provider (Epoch) is to be provided by Operator/Supply Chain Management Software Provider.

n. Complementary information on compliance with this Regulation, which may include information supplied by certification or other third-party verified schemes, including voluntary schemes recognised by the Commission under Article 30(5) of Directive(EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council (21), provided that the information meets the requirements set out in Article 9 of this Regulation.

Any complementary information to support compliance is to be provided by the Operator/Supply Chain Management Software Provider.

Batch Processing via API¶

Parameters and Headers¶

A typical example of a payload for the /export_eudr_dds endpoint is the following:

request_data = {
    "filename": "<collection_id_or_collection_name>"
}

The date parameter represents the end date for the monitoring period (up until processing), not a cut-off date. For EUDR compliance, ensure your batch processing used start_date set to the EUDR cut-off date (2020-12-31).

With the headers being:

headers = {
    'Authorization': "Bearer <authorization_token>",
    'accept': 'application/json'
}

The Authorization header must be replaced by your user token. Check this page for more information on how to authenticate.

Python¶

In python, you can submit a request in the following way:

export_eudr_dds.py
import requests

response = requests.get("https://epoch-sco2-api.com/eudr_risk_assessment/", 
                        params=request_data, 
                        headers=headers)

json_result = json.loads(response.content)
print(json_result)

Javascript¶

biomass_emissions.js
const axios = require('axios');

axios.get('https://epoch-sco2-api.com/eudr_risk_assessment/', {
    params: request_data,
    headers: headers,
})
    .then(response => {
        console.log(response.data);
    })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error(error);
    });

Curl¶

curl -X GET "https://epoch-sco2-api.com/eudr_risk_assessment/?filename=<collection_id_or_collection_name>" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer <authorization_token>" \
     -H "accept: application/json" 

Response¶

The response looks like this:

response = {
    "a": "The assignment of risk is to be provided by the European Commission at the end of Q2 2025.", 
    "b": "Presence of Natural Forest in the sourcing region: 31752.67 ha.", 
    "c": "Presence of Indigenous Peoples in the sourcing region: No.", 
    "d": "Presence of Indigenous Peoples in the sourcing region: No.", 
    "e": "Presence of Indigenous Peoples in the sourcing region: No.", 
    "f": "Deforestation prevalent in the sourcing region: 5830.31 ha / 31752.67 ha,  corresponding to 18.36 % of naturally-forested areas.", 
    "g": "Source, reliability, validity, and links to other available documentation of the information referred to in Article 9(1) is to be provided by the Operator.", 
    "h": "Concerns in relation to the country of production (Malawi): 
          {
            'Corruption Index': 34, 
            'Freedom Index': 66, 
            'Governance Index': {
                'Control of Corruption': 29.7, 
                'Government Effectiveness': 19.8, 
                'Political Stability / Absence of Violence': 37.9, 
                'Rule of Law': 46.2, 
                'Regulatory Quality': 22.2, 
                'Voice and Accountability': 50.0
            }, 
            'Conflict Index': 'No conflict', 
            'Sanctions': 'No sanctions'
          }", 
    "i": "The complexity of the supply chain can be assessed along the following criteria: 
          1. Number of Tiers in the supply chain: To be provided by operator/supply chain management software provider, 
          2. Processing complexity: {
                'Typical Processing Stages': 'Fresh fruit bunches → crude palm oil - refined oil', 
                'Processing Complexity (1–5)': 5,
                'Notes': 'Highly blended, many processors, smallholders involved'
            }, 
          3. Traceability system (directly traceable or mass balance): To be provided by operator/supply chain management software provider, 
          4. Known land plots: Yes (Direct Plot Sourcing Approach).", 
    "j": "The risk of circumvention of this Regulation or of mixing with relevant products of unknown origin or produced in areas where deforestation or forest degradation has occurred or is occurring is based on:   
        1. The complexity of the supply chain: See 10.i for this assessment. 
        2. The prevalence of deforestation and forest degradation in the surrounding regions from where the commodity is sourced. See 10.f for this assessment.", 
    "k": "The conclusions of the meetings of the Commission expert groups supporting the implementation of this Regulation, as published in the Commission’s expert group register, are to be provided by the European Commission.", 
    "l": "The substantiated concerns submitted under Article 31, and information on the history of non-compliance of operators or traders along the relevant supply chain with this Regulation, are to be provided by the European Commission.", 
    "m": "Any information that would point to a risk that the relevant products are non-compliant beyond what has already been provided by the EUDR compliance service provider (Epoch) is to be provided by Operator/Supply Chain Management Software Provider.", 
    "n": "Any complementary information to support compliance is to be provided by the Operator/Supply Chain Management Software Provider."
}