Coffee, from the farm to the filed statement
Most coffee farms are under five hectares, and their coffee reaches you through cooperatives, mills and exporters. Whether you import green coffee or roast what you import, every plot behind it needs its geolocation and its evidence.
What is in scope
What is covered
Coffee, roasted or not, decaffeinated or not, its husks and skins, and substitutes containing coffee. Soluble coffee, its extracts, essences and concentrates, joins on 30 December 2027.
Who files
The company that first places the coffee on the EU market files the due diligence statement: an importer of green coffee, or a roaster that imports its own. The companies after it in the chain keep records of their suppliers and customers.
From when
From 30 December 2026, or from 30 June 2027 for companies that were micro or small on 31 December 2024.
The plots you will get
Plots of a few hectares, held by smallholders who sell through cooperatives, mills and exporters, who are usually the suppliers who can gather them.
Ask them for their farmers' plots from the app. They get an email in their language, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Indonesian or French among them, with reminders, and send the plots from their own list, which serves every buyer who asks.
A plot up to 4 hectares may be given as a point, but an outline gives a fairer result: a point is read as a circle, which can take in a neighbour's clearing, or miss one on the plot itself.
Where it comes from
The EU's coffee comes from across the tropics: Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Honduras, Uganda, Ethiopia, Indonesia and India among them. Each country's risk level changes what your due diligence must cover, and coffee from a low-risk country still needs every plot's geolocation.
- Brazilstandard risk
- Vietnamlow risk
- Colombiastandard risk
- Hondurasstandard risk
- Ugandastandard risk
- Ethiopiastandard risk
- Indonesiastandard risk
- Indialow risk
Importing coffee?
Tell us what you import and from where, and we will set up your account.
Other commodities
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Rubber Plantations, replanting, and what left the scope in 2026. -
Soy Large farms, Brazilian CAR properties, and land that greens again within a season. -
Cocoa From beans to chocolate, and plots under a canopy of shade trees. -
Palm oil Estates, smallholders, and replanting. -
Cattle Every establishment where the animals were kept.