📖 Reference · For users who need to know which data the producer score in the legality assessment is built on, per methodology version.
This article lists the data behind the producer score that the legality assessment under the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) uses: the country risk indices, the alert event types, and the other inputs to the score. How the score is calculated and how it decides the result is described in EUDR: Legality assessment methodology versions.
Data sources per version
Both versions use the same score components and weights. Version 2.1 uses newer editions of several country risk indices and an updated list of alert event types (see Country risk indices and Alert event types).
Score component | Weight | Data source |
Country risk | 15% | Public indices, grouped into seven EUDR risk categories (see Country risk indices) |
Industry risk | 7.5% | Prewave data on suppliers worldwide, grouped by industry according to the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), rated by the frequency of past incidents in each industry |
Commodity risk | 7.5% | Prewave commodity risk rating |
Alert score | 40% | Public alerts on the producer, found by Prewave's AI-supported screening of news, social media and other online sources, sorted into event types (see Alert event types) |
Self-assessment score | 20% | Producer answers to Prewave questionnaires on EUDR topics (see Self-assessment topics). Optional. |
Internal score | 10% | Information a company provides about a producer, such as a known incident or a known high-risk producer. Optional. |
Country risk indices
Version 2.1
Changes from Version 1:
Deforestation uses the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 instead of the 2020 edition.
Labour rights use the 2023 edition of the Global Slavery Index and the 2024 edition of the ITUC Global Rights Index.
ILO statistics on national compliance with labour rights replace the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators.
For a country that an index does not cover, the value is estimated from the most similar countries across the other risk indicators.
Risk category | Index | What it measures |
Land use rights and community rights | Legally recognised tenure rights of communities, and areas with customary or historic claims that are not yet recognised | |
Forest-related rules | Annual deforestation rate per country, 2020 to 2025 | |
Human rights | Vulnerability of states to collapse, based on the Conflict Assessment System Tool (CAST) framework | |
Human rights | Criminal markets, criminal actors and resilience to organised crime in 193 countries | |
Human rights | State of democracy, based on the Global State of Democracy indices | |
Business practices | Sanctioned individuals and companies of political, criminal or economic interest | |
Business practices | Perceived public sector corruption, from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) | |
Business practices | Trade freedom (the only field Prewave uses) | |
Labour rights | Prevalence of modern slavery, government responses and population risk | |
Labour rights | Fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers | |
Labour rights | National compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) | |
Labour rights | Protection of childhood, scored from 1 to 1,000 | |
Labour rights | Respect for workers' rights, rated from 1 to 5+ | |
Labour rights | Child labour and decent work for young workers, parents and caregivers | |
Labour rights | Gender parity in economic opportunity, education, health and political leadership | |
Labour rights | Share of the employed population below the international poverty line, by sex and age | |
Environmental protection | 40 indicators in 11 issue categories, such as air quality, biodiversity and waste management, for 180 countries | |
Environmental protection | Basin risk scores per country and region, focused on biodiversity importance | |
Environmental protection | Annual deaths from unintentional poisoning, as an indicator of hazardous chemical management and pollution | |
Environmental protection | Waste generation, recycling, landfilling and illegal dumping per country |
Version 1
Risk category | Index | What it measures |
Land use rights | Legally recognised tenure rights of communities, and areas with customary or historic claims that are not yet recognised | |
Community rights | Recognition and implementation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples | |
Forest-related rules | Status and trends of more than 60 forest variables in 236 countries and territories, 1990 to 2020 | |
Human rights | Vulnerability of states to collapse, based on the Conflict Assessment System Tool (CAST) framework | |
Human rights | Criminal markets, criminal actors and resilience to organised crime in 193 countries | |
Human rights | State of democracy, based on the Global State of Democracy indices | |
Business practices | Sanctioned individuals and companies of political, criminal or economic interest | |
Business practices | Perceived public sector corruption, from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) | |
Business practices | Trade freedom (the only field Prewave uses) | |
Labour rights | Prevalence of modern slavery, government responses and population risk | |
Labour rights | Fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers | |
Labour rights | Protection of childhood, scored from 1 to 1,000 | |
Labour rights | Six governance dimensions, including rule of law and control of corruption, for more than 200 countries | |
Labour rights | Respect for workers' rights in 149 countries, rated from 1 to 5+ | |
Labour rights | Impacts of business on children's rights | |
Labour rights | Gender parity in economic opportunity, education, health and political leadership | |
Labour rights | Share of the employed population below the international poverty line, by sex and age | |
Environmental protection | 40 indicators in 11 issue categories, such as air quality, biodiversity and climate change, for 180 countries | |
Environmental protection | 32 indicators in 11 issue categories for 180 countries | |
Environmental protection | Basin risk scores per country and region, focused on biodiversity importance | |
Environmental protection | Annual deaths from unintentional poisoning, as an indicator of hazardous chemical management and pollution |
Alert event types
Each public alert is sorted into an event type. An alert reaches a producer's score in one of these ways:
Direct: the alert names the producer.
Site Group: the alert is connected to the site group the producer belongs to.
Regional: the alert concerns the region the producer is located in.
For each way, the event type has an impact level: Critical, High, Mid or Low. Alerts of event types with a higher impact level have a stronger influence on the score, and alerts with a Critical impact level have the most severe influence. A dash (–) means that alerts of this event type do not reach the producer in that way.
The EUDR reference names the points of Article 2(40), relevant legislation, and Article 10(2), risk assessment criteria, that the event type relates to.
The tables below show the event types in Version 2.1. Version 1 uses the same event types, with two differences:
Version 1 also uses the event types Right to food, Right to seed (community rights), Privacy, Right to participation, Torture and cruelty (human rights) and Resource intensity (environmental protection).
In Version 1, four event types have other names: Corruption (Bribery in Version 2.1), Fraud (Deceitful reporting), Chemical leakage (Chemical spill) and Toxication (Toxic contamination).
Land use rights
Event type | Direct | Site Group | Regional | EUDR reference |
Land conflict | Critical | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(a); Art. 10(2)(a), (m) |
Land grabbing | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(a); Art. 10(2)(a), (c), (d), (e) |
Community rights
Event type | Direct | Site Group | Regional | EUDR reference |
Indigenous right to lands violation | Critical | Critical | – | Art. 2(40)(d), (g); Art. 10(2)(a), (c), (d), (e) |
Indigenous self-determination | Critical | Critical | – | Art. 2(40)(d), (g); Art. 10(2)(a), (c), (d), (e) |
Forest-related rules
Event type | Direct | Site Group | Regional | EUDR reference |
Deforestation | High | Mid | Low | Art. 2(40)(c); Art. 10(2)(a), (b), (f) |
Human rights
Event type | Direct | Site Group | Regional | EUDR reference |
Freedom of religion | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(f); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Freedom of thought violation | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(f); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Human rights violation | Critical | Critical | – | Art. 2(40)(f); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Human trafficking | Critical | Critical | – | Art. 2(40)(f); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Military action | Mid | – | Mid | Art. 2(40)(f); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Military conflict | Mid | – | Mid | Art. 2(40)(f); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Military occupation | Mid | – | Mid | Art. 2(40)(f); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Business practices
Event type | Direct | Site Group | Regional | EUDR reference |
Accounting fraud | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h) |
Bribery | Mid | Low | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h) |
Collusion | Mid | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h) |
Corporate investigation | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h), (m) |
Corporate liability | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h), (m) |
Corporate wrongdoing | Mid | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h), (m) |
Customs issue | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (h), (m) |
Deceitful reporting | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h) |
Insider trading | Mid | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (h), (m) |
Lawsuit | Mid | Low | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h), (m) |
Legal procedure | Mid | Low | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h), (m) |
Regulatory shutdown | Critical | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h), (m) |
Sanctions | Mid | Low | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h), (m) |
Scandal | Mid | Low | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (g), (h), (m) |
Smuggling | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (h), (m) |
Tax evasion | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(h); Art. 10(2)(a), (h), (m) |
Labour rights
Event type | Direct | Site Group | Regional | EUDR reference |
Child exploitation | Critical | Critical | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Child labor | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Discrimination | Mid | Low | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Health and safety issues | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Illegal employment | Critical | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Labor rights violation | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Modern slavery | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Unethical labor | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Wage theft | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Workplace safety | Critical | High | – | Art. 2(40)(e); Art. 10(2)(a), (h) |
Environmental protection
Event type | Direct | Site Group | Regional | EUDR reference |
Biodiversity degradation | High | Mid | Mid | Art. 2(40)(b); Art. 10(2)(a), (m) |
Chemical spill | Critical | High | Mid | Art. 2(40)(b); Art. 10(2)(a), (m) |
Environmental issue | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(b); Art. 10(2)(a), (h), (m) |
Pollution | High | Mid | Mid | Art. 2(40)(b); Art. 10(2)(a), (m) |
Toxic contamination | Critical | High | Mid | Art. 2(40)(b); Art. 10(2)(a), (m) |
Waste disposal problem | High | Mid | – | Art. 2(40)(b); Art. 10(2)(a), (h), (m) |
Self-assessment topics
Producer self-assessments for EUDR cover these topics:
Labour rights
Human rights
Land use rights
Community rights
Forest-related rules
Environmental protection
[!note] Producer questionnaires are not scored Prewave does not score the answers to producer questionnaires. Neither the EU nor any other authoritative institution provides a shared framework for rating this information, so any score would be arbitrary. The questionnaires let you collect context from producers, support your own qualitative decisions, and engage with producers directly.