🕰️ Our thirteen years
13 yrs
First-hand witness of EUTR → EUDR
2013 — The EU Timber Regulation (EU 995/2010) requires wood and wood products entering the EU to prove "legal harvesting". We began providing EUTR due diligence services for wood product companies the same year, and registered eutr.com.cn — at that time, it was the only EU regulation governing forest products.
2013–2023 — Over ten years we accompanied wood products, furniture and paper factories through every EUTR-era customer audit and every round of regulatory Q&A, watching more and more factories go from "never heard of EUTR" to "asked for due diligence documents by customers".
2023 — EUDR (EU 2023/1115) is adopted. Product coverage expands from one commodity group to seven, the requirement rises from "legal" to "deforestation-free", and traceability deepens from documentation to plot-level GPS coordinates. We upgraded our entire service system immediately.
2026–2027 — From 30 December 2026, EUDR fully replaces the EUTR. The domain has not changed, because long-time customers know us by it; the services have been fully renewed, because what new customers need is EUDR.
📦 For EUTR-era clients: your past compliance work was not wasted — but it needs an "upgrade"
If your factory built a due diligence system during the EUTR era — congratulations. You already have the foundations: supply chain files, supplier management, internal procedures. But EUDR requires four things that are "new from zero":
- Deforestation-free evidence: EUTR required legal harvesting; EUDR requires proving the plots were not deforested or degraded after 31 December 2020 — historical satellite imagery comparison, entirely new work
- Plot coordinates: documentation used to suffice; now WGS-84 coordinates are required for every raw-material plot (polygons above 4 hectares) — the most time-consuming item by common consent
- Electronic DDS: registering with the EU information system and managing statement reference numbers
- Wider scope: if you also touch rubber, or commodities beyond paper — palm oil, coffee, cocoa, soy, cattle — those supply chains must be traced from zero
Our advantage: we can read your EUTR documentation and we can rebuild it — upgrading is far faster than building from scratch. Companies that did EUTR and companies that did not start from completely different points.
🤝 Why we tell you this history
From the EUTR (EU Timber Regulation) to the EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation) — but from 2013 to today we have stayed rooted in the EU supply chain. We have seen every pitfall of the EUTR era, and we know which documents EU customers genuinely need to see and which are mere formalities. The regulation changes; "helping factories sell compliant products into the EU" is something we have done for thirteen years and will keep doing.
The regulation's requirements have grown — and so has our experience.