EUDR Practicalities: A Fast-Track BIC Project
The aim of this BIC project is to provide the book industry supply chain with practical guidance on how to implement the 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 organisations undertake a due diligence review of their supply chains. For the timber industry and its derivative products this means tracing back to the geolocation upon which the trees grew.
Deliverables
The Project Task and Finish Working Group (T&FWG) has produced a number of documents to help the reader better understand EUDR and has provided some practical solutions and documents to navigate EUDR and its implementation:
- 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 guidance includes a link to EDItEUR’s application note which has been updated, latest update 9th October 2025.
A set of BIC FAQs will be available shortly.
It should be noted that these are working documents and will be updated as new information is provided by the EU or solutions are refined during the implementation of EUDR.
Proposed Delay to the EUDR (as of 8th October 2025)
You may have heard news of a proposed second delay to the EUDR. This second delay has been proposed by EU commissioner Jessika Roswall (Swedish Commissioner responsible for environment, water resilience and a competitive circular economy).
Please keep in mind that this is only a proposal. Any delay needs to be first agreed by i) the European Commission, ii) the European Parliament and also iii) the Council of Europe. All three must agree. If they don’t all agree, the end December 2025 date remains.
BIC is currently working on the assumption that there won’t be a delay and encourages its members to do the same.
BIC welcomes feedback/comments on any of the above documentation, please email info@bic.org.uk.
Project continuation
Although the ‘sprint’ element of the project has now been completed, BIC’s EUDR project continues. If any BIC member wishes to join the T&FWG or would like to find out more, please email info@bic.org.uk.
BIC’s EUDR email support group
BIC has set up an EUDR email support group for its members. To join the conversation please email BICEUDR+subscribe@groups.io.
From the EU Commission
The EU Commission’s latest guidance notes (12th Aug 2025)
Communicating Due Diligence Statement (DDS) and GPS data in ONIX
EDItEUR’s ONIX Application Note: EU Deforestation Regulation and ONIX
Other resources
- From BIC – BIC Bite – Introduction to EUDR (19th Dec 2024), as of 13th Aug 2025 this is currently under review.
- 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.