For our client, an innovative Slovenian company, we conducted a study of the functional and informational requirements for equipment intended to track
wood assortments and other primary materials under Regulation EUDR 1115/2023/EU concerning the availability of certain primary and other products (cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, and wood) related to deforestation and forest degradation on the EU market and their export from the EU. The regulation is primarily aimed at importers of these products into the EU, who will need to register with the relevant (customs) office within one year and provide a Due Diligence Declaration for import or export, specifying the geolocation of the lands where these products were primarily produced. These declarations will be stored in the EU information system, which should also allow the conversion of data from relevant geolocation identification systems. Additional challenges include implementing measures to protect the accessibility and authenticity of collected data, including the analysis of unauthorized intrusions. We also witnessed firsthand that plantations in African and Asian countries are already being equipped with geolocation technology.