Integrity Systems Company is currently developing a voluntary module as part of the Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) program. This new module is designed to assist cattle producers supplying beef, leather and hide products to meet the new regulations and maintain market access into the European Union.
The European union have announced that the EUDR requirements will take effect from 31 December 2025, and ISC is targeting to have the voluntary module available by December 2024.
For Australia this regulation applies to the following products produced from cattle which are exported to the EU:
This export market is worth approximately $150 million to Australia annually.
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 exporters will need to provide geolocation coordinates of where cattle have been kept from birth to slaughter for each consignment.
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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.
What is Integrity Systems Company (ISC) doing?
ISC is working with the red meat industry to develop an “opt-in” feature which will be built into the Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) program. This feature will:
What the new 'opt-in' feature won't do:
The new feature will NOT access deforestation or land degradation data. This is the importer’s responsibility.
About this webpage
This webpage will be regularly updated with the progress on the new voluntary module, and we will notify producers when they can opt-in as soon as the module is available.
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.