STANDARD risk — the default class for countries not on the low or high list. Classification from Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1093 (22 May 2025); countries not listed default to standard risk under Article 1(2).
Hosts around 60% of the Amazon plus the Cerrado savanna — the two fronts where the 31 Dec 2020 cutoff bites hardest. Deforestation attribution studies put cattle pasture first and soy expansion second among commodity drivers.
Main commodity drivers of forest loss: cattle, soy (deforestation-attribution literature).
Registration in the rural environmental registry is mandatory but self-declared, and the CAR polygon is the property boundary, not necessarily the production plot. Map Studio fetches it by CAR number; verify the actual plot inside it.
Legal reserve requirements — up to 80% of a property in the Amazon biome must stay forested; embargoed-area lists (IBAMA) are checked by EU operators.
For cattle chains: movement records that tie the animal to the birth-to-slaughter farms — indirect suppliers are the known laundering gap.
Suppliers can fetch their plot by its official reference number in Map Studio. Suppliers can fetch their plot by CAR number — registration is compulsory for rural property.
Art. 9(1)(a)-(b) — from the commercial invoice.
Art. 9(1)(c).
Art. 9(1)(d) — six-decimal WGS84; polygons over 4 ha. Map Studio fetches plots from the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR/SICAR) by reference number.
Art. 9(1)(e) — every business you were supplied by.
Art. 9(1)(g) — satellite cross-check against the 31 Dec 2020 cutoff; certification supports but does not replace it.
Art. 9(1)(h) legality evidence — Registration in the rural environmental registry is mandatory but self-declared, and the CAR polygon is the property boundary, not necessarily the production plot. Map Studio fetches it by CAR number; verify the actual plot inside it.
Art. 9(1)(h) legality evidence — Legal reserve requirements — up to 80% of a property in the Amazon biome must stay forested; embargoed-area lists (IBAMA) are checked by EU operators.
Art. 9(1)(h) legality evidence — For cattle chains: movement records that tie the animal to the birth-to-slaughter farms — indirect suppliers are the known laundering gap.