EUDR Practicalities: A Fast-Track BIC Project
[NEW] Part 2 – Updated deliverables – August 2026
Below is the updated documentation reflecting the EU Commission’s changes on 19th Dec 2025 and the subsequent simplification announced on 4th May 2026.
- The BIC EUDR Practicalities – Fast Track Project Report Part 2 – please read this document first as it provides an overview of the project group’s work.
- The EUDR Helpful Information Part 2 – this document lays out all the project group’s suggestions and solutions. It also references the following three updated data flow maps created to help the reader understand the flow of the necessary data through the supply chain:
The Helpful Information Part 2 includes a link to EDItEUR’s application note which was updated – 9th October 2025. An update is coming soon.
The BIC project still continues as there are outstanding questions yet to be answered. The EU Commission is not expected to release any new updates until September 2026. At which time BIC will review its documentation again.
BIC welcomes feedback/comments on any of the above documentation, please email info@bic.org.uk.
Read a summary of the EU Commission update (4th May 2026)
Read the 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.
Up to 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
The BIC EUDR project will continue in 2026 with a further update due from the EU in September 2026.
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 continues to remain active in 2026, and BIC members are most welcome to join the conversation. For access to this email group, please email BICEUDR+subscribe@groups.io.
BIC’s 2025 EUDR deliverables (reference only, all updated in August 2026)
Revised BIC Bite (published 19th Dec 2025, August 2026 update coming soon)
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.