đ ď¸ How-to guide ¡ For users who see a Non-negligible legality result on an origin request and want to review it and unblock their Due Diligence Statement.
An origin with a Non-negligible legality result blocks the Due Diligence Statement (DDS) for its product and its Product Origin Request (origin request for short). This guide shows you how to find these origins, review the risk, and record a decision for each one: derisk it or deactivate it.
Before you start
You can open Compliance > EUDR and the "Origin Request" tab.
The origin request is Answered and its origins have a legality result.
You can record a decision for an origin only while it is Non-negligible, active, not yet part of a DDS, and not covered by a supplier's DDS.
You record a decision for one origin at a time. The product is cleared once every Non-negligible origin has a decision.
How to resolve a non-negligible legality result
Find the blocked origin requests
Open Compliance > EUDR and select the "Origin Request" tab (1).
In the Status filter (2), select Answered.
In the DDS Gate reason filter (3), select Assessment required or non-negligible.
Select a request in the list to open it (4).
The DDS Gate reason tells you that an action is open, not which assessment it concerns. A request in this list can also be blocked by a deforestation check that is Non-negligible or still Required. On the request page, the "Legality Assessment" tile (1) and the Legality column (2) under "Answer â declared origins" show whether legality is the assessment to act on. If the tile shows Negligible, the open action is on the deforestation side, and you can go back to the list and open the next request.
Open the legality assessment
On the request page, select the "Legality Assessment" tile. The product opens on the "Inbound" tab in a new browser tab.
In the Legality Assessment column, select the Non-negligible badge of the product (1).
A window lists the product's origins and their legality status. To show only the blocking origins, set the Legality assessment status filter (1) to Non-negligible. Select the eye icon (2) in the row of the origin you want to review.
Review the risk
The origin opens on the "Risk assessment" tab. It shows the producer score, the threshold of 40, and when the result was set. Select "Live results" (1) to open the producer's profile with the alerts and scores behind the result. You record your decision on the "Risk decision" tab (2).
Collect the information you need to decide. Article 11 of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) names, for example, additional information or documents from your supplier and independent surveys or audits. The European Commission's guidance document lists the kinds of evidence that can show a commodity was produced legally, depending on the country of production:
official documents from the authorities, such as administrative permits from official registries
contracts and agreements, including agreements with indigenous peoples or local communities
information from certification or other third-party verified schemes
judicial decisions
impact assessments, management plans and environmental audit reports
The guidance also names company policies and codes of conduct, a producer's self-declaration of legal compliance, social responsibility agreements, and reports on land tenure and rights claims. You do not need a land title where the law of the country of production does not require one to produce and sell the commodity.
For each document, check that it is consistent with the other information you have, what exactly it proves, what it is based on (for example control by an authority or an independent audit), and how reliable it is, taking the risk of corruption in the country into account.
Choose derisk or deactivate
Derisk origin: your review shows that the risk is negligible after all. For example, the documents from the supplier show that the producer works legally, or the alerts behind the score concern a different site. The origin then counts as Negligible for the product and the origin request. The result stays visible, and your decision is recorded with it.
Deactivate origin: this fits two cases. First, the origin was never part of your sourcing. For example, the supplier clarifies that this producer and plot did not supply the product, because the supplier over-reported from an outdated data set or by mistake. Second, the risk is confirmed, but you can keep your product batch, or the affected part of it, apart from this origin. The origin leaves the due diligence process and no longer blocks the DDS. If you cannot separate the goods from this origin because they were mixed, deactivate the other origins of the request too. Once every origin of a request is deactivated, its DDS Gate shows the reason All origins deactivated.
Record your decision
On the "Risk decision" tab, select the "Record decision" button (1).
â ď¸ Important: You cannot undo or edit a decision once you submit it.
Under Decision (1), select Derisk origin or Deactivate origin.
In Explain your decision (2), describe what you checked and what your conclusion rests on, in up to 1,000 characters.
If you derisk, attach one document under Attach supporting evidence (3): PDF, PNG, JPG or DOCX, up to 10 MB. This step is optional.
Select "Submit decision" (4).
Check the result
A derisked origin shows Derisked and "Does not block DDS generation" (1). The "Risk decision" tab shows who recorded the decision and when, your comment (2) and the attached document (3). "See full history" lists the decision in the legality assessment history.
When every Non-negligible origin of the product has a decision, the product's legality result turns Negligible. The origin request's DDS Gate turns Allowed when no other assessment blocks it.
To understand what a legality result tells you and why it stays fixed, see this article: EUDR: Understanding the legality assessment.
For the rules and data behind the result, see EUDR: Legality assessment methodology versions.