The Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) has introduced a geolocation sharing tool to support cattle producers to continue to export beef, beef products, leather and hides to the European Union following the commencement of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) on 31 December 2025.
The European Union has initiated the EUDR to limit its impact on global deforestation, forest degradation and biodiversity loss by promoting de-forestation-free supply chains.
To comply with these new regulations, Australian cattle producers who wish to continue exporting beef, beef products, leather and hides to the European Union can include their geolocation data (longitude and latitude coordinates) in their Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) account.
The EUDR is in addition to the existing European Union Cattle Accreditation Scheme (EUCAS) which is administered by the Australian Government’s Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
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The land cattle have been kept on from birth to slaughter must not have been subject to deforestation or forest degradation since 31 December 2020.
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Australian cattle producers who wish to continue to trade into the EU will need to provide their geolocation (latitude coordinate and longitude coordinate) to enable this information sharing to occur.
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Australian feedlots and processors will be able to access a new report in the NLIS to verify the deforestation status of the geolocations for cattle they wish to send to the EU to conduct their own due diligence process on for deforestation.
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Australian exporters need to provide the geolocation coordinates of where all cattle have been kept from birth to slaughter for each export consignment.
What has Integrity Systems Company (ISC) done?
ISC has worked with the red meat industry to add an “opt-in” feature to the Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) program.
This feature will:
What the ‘opt-in’ solution won’t do?
Stage 1 of the Geolocation Sharing feature won’t:
Not yet. The EUDR includes a benchmarking system which determines the deforestation and degradation risk of each nation. Nations will be classed on a three-tier system from low to high risk.
These tiers are defined as:
The European Union Commission has advised that country benchmarking will be completed by 30 June 2025. All countries have been designated as standard risk until a risk assessment has been completed. Australia is advocating for a permanent low-risk rating.
A ‘geolocation’ is a latitude coordinate and longitude coordinate to a minimum of six decimal places. For cattle, the EUDR requires a single geolocation coordinate to describe the establishments where cattle have been kept i.e. one latitude and one longitude coordinate.
Geolocations will be shared with entities in the EU supply chain including feedlots, processors, exporters, importers and the EU Commission. Importers must include the geolocations on a due diligence statement to be able to import the product.
Beef, beef products and leather/hides from cattle you produce may not be eligible for export to the EU.
For producers who are European Union Cattle Accreditation Scheme (EUCAS) accredited, opting in to this feature will allow you to continue to supply cattle for export to the EU.
Leather and hides that are exported to the EU can be sourced from any cattle in Australia, not just from EUCAS properties. Even if you are not in EUCAS by participating in EUDR it enables leather/hides from cattle to continue to be exported to the EU.
The EU is committed to reducing its impact on global deforestation and forest degradation. The EU aims to do this through promoting the consumption of ‘deforestation-free’ products via the Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products which they expect to bring down greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss.