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Adds jurisdictions/eu-EUDR.md. There is currently no EUDR card in the map, and the geolocation mandate is a privacy problem sitting inside a supply chain regime.

Why now

The Commission published its simplification package on 4 May 2026 (COM(2026) 191 final), confirming the application date with no further delay. Large and medium operators, plus micro and small operators in the timber sector, are in scope from 30 December 2026. Remaining micro and small operators follow on 30 June 2027. Those dates were set by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650.

The part that concerns this map

Article 9 requires latitude and longitude to six decimal digits for every plot of land, expressed as a polygon where the plot exceeds four hectares, lodged in a due diligence statement in the EU Information System.

Two details make this more interesting than a straight disclosure mandate:

  • Downstream business-to-business transmission carries a DDS reference number rather than the coordinates, and the Information System can hide geolocations even from parties referencing the DDS. Confidentiality is already a design goal of the regime.
  • Smallholder plot polygons are commercially sensitive and personal data at the same time, which puts EUDR against the EU data protection card.

Scope

Follows jurisdictions/_template.md: frontmatter in the established six-key order, the developer-orientation blockquote, ## At a Glance, ## What to Watch, ## See also. Descriptive throughout, with no compliance steps or operational advice. Roughly 180 words, in line with the other seven cards.

Checks

  • CI_MODE=strict npm run validate passes with zero warnings against this file
  • check-terms clean
  • Vale clean (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 suggestions)

CHANGELOG entry added under [Unreleased].

Note for reviewers: patterns/pattern-private-geospatial-attestation.md is deliberately not linked here, since it arrives in a separate PR. That link gets added there.

Documents the 30 December 2026 application date confirmed by the
Commission simplification review of 4 May 2026 (COM(2026) 191 final),
and the Article 9 plot-level geolocation obligation: latitude and
longitude to six decimal digits, polygons above four hectares, lodged
centrally in the EU Information System.

Notes that downstream B2B transmission carries a DDS reference number
rather than coordinates, so confidentiality is already a design goal
of the regime.
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