EUDR Practicalities: A Fast-Track BIC Project
Read the latest update here on the recently announced changes to EUDR (19th December 2025)
Following recent developments, the aim of this BIC project in 2026 continues to be to provide those organisations in the book industry supply chain that are still affected, with practical guidance on how to implement the now amended European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
The EUDR regulation requires that seven commodities (cocoa, coffee, soy, palm oil, wood, rubber, and cattle, and their derivatives) are deforestation or land degradation free before they can be imported into or exported from the EU. Part of the process requires that affected organisations undertake a due diligence review of their supply chains. For the timber industry and some of its derivative products this means tracing back to the geolocation upon which the trees grew.
Until recently (December 2025), this included printed matter (Chapter 49), which (amongst other items) meant printed books and journals. Chapter 49 is now excluded, and a further delay has also been agreed.
Lists of product types in Chapter 49 (now excluded from EUDR) and Chapter 48 (still included in EUDR):
TARIC browser, listing product types in Chapter 49
TARIC browser, listing product types in Chapter 48
BIC’s EUDR Project continues in 2026
In light of these developments BIC would like to reassure its members and the wider industry that its 2025 EUDR Deliverables published below will be updated in 2026 to reflect the now agreed and ratified amendments to the legislation.
To this end, the BIC EUDR project will continue in 2026 and is charged with clarifying the recent changes and issuing guidance for those organisations and products in our supply chain that will still be impacted by EUDR.
Project Participation
If any BIC member not already involved in the project would like to participate, or find out more, please email info@bic.org.uk.
BIC’s EUDR Email Support Group
In 2025, BIC set up an EUDR email support group for its members.
This group will remain active in 2026, and BIC members continue to be most welcome to join the conversation. For access to this email group, please email BICEUDR+subscribe@groups.io.
BIC’s 2025 EUDR Deliverables
Earlier in 2025, BIC’s Project Task and Finish Working Group (T&FWG) produced a number of documents to help the reader better understand EUDR as it stood at that time (April – July 2025), and provided some practical solutions to navigate EUDR and its implementation at that time:
- The BIC EUDR Practicalities – Fast Track Project Report – please read this document first as it provides an overview of the T&FWG’s work.
- The EUDR Helpful Information – this document lays out all the T&FWG’s thoughts, suggestions and solutions. It also references the following four data flow maps created to help the reader understand the flow of the necessary data through the supply chain:
The Helpful Information includes a link to EDItEUR’s application note which has been updated, latest update 9th October 2025.
BIC welcomes feedback/comments on any of the above documentation, please email info@bic.org.uk.
Please note the above BIC documentation will be updated in 2026.
Revised BIC Bite (published 19th Dec 2025)
BIC Bite: Introduction to EUDR
Communicating Due Diligence Statement (DDS) and GPS data in ONIX
EDItEUR’s ONIX Application Note: EU Deforestation Regulation and ONIX
Other resources from 2024
- From White & Case – a brief overview of EUDR and a list of the top 10 points.
- From CPI – a guide to explaining EUDR, webinar recording and slides. Read CPI’s EUDR document (July 2024). View recording of CPI’s EUDR webinar (July 2024) and the slides that were presented, along with a document showing answers to some of the questions that were not covered due to time constraints. N.B. The threshold for SMEs has been updated in the slides to reflect the latest levels, please note this is different to the information shown during the recording.
As and when BIC has more information about EUDR it will be posted here.