Palm oil, from the plantation to the filed statement
Palm oil comes from large estates and from smallholders, whose fruit meets at the mill. Every plot that supplied the fruit behind your oil needs its geolocation and its evidence.
What is in scope
What is covered
Palm nuts and kernels, crude and refined palm oil and palm kernel oil, oilcake, and derivatives Annex I lists, such as glycerol and fatty acids. Only the oil palm counts: babassu and other palms do not.
Further derivatives, among them hydrogenated fats, fatty alcohols and soap, join on 30 December 2027.
Who files
The company that first places the goods on the EU market files the due diligence statement, usually a refiner or an importer. 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
Estates large enough to need outlines, and smallholdings of a few hectares, all delivering to mills, which are usually the suppliers who can gather them.
Ask the mill or the exporter for the plots from the app. They get an email in their language, Indonesian, English or Spanish among them, with reminders, and send the plots from their own list, which serves every buyer who asks.
A smallholding 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
Most palm oil the EU imports comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, with Latin American and West African growers beside them. Each country's risk level changes what your due diligence must cover.
- Indonesiastandard risk
- Malaysiastandard risk
Importing palm oil?
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. -
Coffee Green and roasted, smallholders' points, and shade-grown coffee. -
Cattle Every establishment where the animals were kept.