The EU's biggest protein import now needs coordinates.
EUDR for soy means that soya beans, meal and oil placed on the EU market or exported must be deforestation-free, legally produced and covered by a due diligence statement with plot geolocation.
Soya is an EUDR commodity — beans, meal, flour and oil. The EU imports over 30 million tonnes of soy equivalent a year, most of it feed moving through elevators, crushers and bulk vessels that blend thousands of farms into fungible flows. From 30 December 2026, large and medium operators placing soy on the EU market need due-diligence statements tracing to deforestation-free plots. Bulk agricultural logistics and plot-level proof are structurally at odds — which is exactly the gap the regulation forces the chain to close.
EUDR for soy, in three facts.
Reg. (EU) 2023/1115 · soya beans, meal and oil in scope · large and medium operators from 30 Dec 2026 · cut-off 31 Dec 2020.
The EU Deforestation Regulation applies from 30 December 2026 to large and medium operators and traders and from 30 June 2027 to micro and small enterprises.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2025/2650Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102 removed soybeans for sowing from the EUDR product list; soya beans, meal and oil remain in scope.
Source: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102Products covered by the EUDR must come from land that was not deforested after 31 December 2020.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2023/1115
What soy chains must now prove.
Plot geolocation at origin
Coordinates — polygons for plots over four hectares — for every farm contributing to a consignment, captured before the beans enter the bulk system.
Scope covers derivatives
Soy meal in compound feed and soy oil in food products inherit the obligation — the importer of the derivative answers for the farm plot.
Due-diligence statement
A DDS filed in the EU information system per consignment, with negligible-risk conclusion supported by the geolocation and legality evidence.
Segregation or full mapping
Either physically segregate compliant flows or geolocate every plot feeding a blended consignment — EUDR accepts complete data, not statistical averages.
The timeline, as it stands.
Large and medium operators come into scope on 30 December 2026; micro and small enterprises follow on 30 June 2027. Feed buyers and food brands are already writing plot-data clauses into origination contracts.
Three moves that de-risk the deadline.
Classify your origination
Split volumes by provable origin today: farm-direct with polygons, cooperative with partial data, spot-market blind. The blind share is the risk number your board needs.
Bind data before the elevator
Once beans enter bulk storage, plot identity is a data problem, not a physical one — capture the farm-to-elevator transaction and carry it as structured data on the flow.
Pressure-test a DDS
Assemble a real consignment's statement end-to-end, including the polygon files, before the volume commitments of the 2026–27 season lock in.
Structured provenance for bulk flows.
Aeroz attaches verified identity and plot geolocation at the first custody transaction and appends every movement to an EPCIS 2.0 log — so a blended consignment carries the complete set of contributing plots as data. The DDS compiles from the log, and the same evidence serves feed customers passing their own EUDR obligations upstream.
EUDR for soy, answered.
Which soy products fall under EUDR?
Soya beans and listed derivatives including soy meal, flour and oil. Compound products carry the obligation for their soy content — feed importers are squarely in scope.
Does mass-balance certification satisfy the regulation?
No — schemes can inform risk assessment but the DDS requires plot-level geolocation for the actual product. Blended consignments need the full set of contributing plots.
Who files the DDS for imported soy meal?
The operator first placing it on the EU market. Downstream users may reference the upstream DDS but keep an obligation to verify due diligence was properly exercised.
What is the land-use cut-off?
31 December 2020 — soy from land deforested after that date cannot enter the EU market regardless of when the deforestation was legal locally.
Know exactly where you stand — in 14 days.
A fixed-fee Aeroz audit maps your products against EUDR soy requirements and returns a written readiness assessment, a data-mapping review, and a scoped pilot plan with cost and timeline.