EUDR screening for palm oil importers.
The certification model most of the palm oil industry already runs on, RSPO Mass Balance, is explicitly not accepted as EUDR compliance. Here's how EUDR applies to a palm oil importer specifically, and what a plot-level satellite screen adds that a certificate can't.
What counts as palm oil under EUDR
Annex I's oil palm entry covers crude and refined palm oil, palm kernel oil, oilcake, and a set of derivatives that show up well outside the food aisle: glycerol, stearic/palmitic/oleic acid, and industrial fatty alcohols used in soap, candles, and cosmetics. A delegated act adopted 13 July 2026 adds further palm-oil oleochemicals, including soap, to the list from 30 December 2027.
- A trader or refiner taking physical possession of crude palm oil (CPO) or crude palm kernel oil (CPKO) is almost always the operator: full geolocation, risk assessment, and a Due Diligence Statement per shipment.
- A downstream manufacturer buying already-refined palm oil as one ingredient among many, for a wafer, a bakery product, or a cosmetic, is typically the lighter downstream-operator path, referencing the refiner's DDS number.
- RSPO's own member list mixes both roles: genuine CPO/CPKO traders and refiners alongside food or cosmetics manufacturers who only use palm oil as an input. Only the former are this tool's fit.
RSPO Mass Balance certification, even at the highest level, doesn't satisfy EUDR
Around 40% of global palm oil is smallholder-grown. Even the industry's most resourced, best-documented buyers report high plantation traceability under RSPO's Mass Balance model, sometimes above 85 to 90%. Mass Balance lets certified and uncertified oil physically blend in the supply chain, with only the paperwork tracking a percentage claim.
EUDR does not recognize Mass Balance, or any blend model, as compliant. The regulation requires traceability to a specific geolocated plot for every shipment, closer to RSPO's strictest, least-used Identity Preserved or Segregated tiers, applied without exception. A high Mass Balance traceability percentage is real, useful evidence for your own risk assessment; it is not itself an EUDR-sufficient answer.
What a palm oil screening actually shows
Upload your mill, plantation, or supplier list with coordinates (or names and addresses if that's what you have) and every location is checked for forest-cover change signals since 31 December 2020, independent of any certification claim behind it.
One RED mill or plantation makes the whole lot RED, unless kept physically separate. Palm oil's typical origin countries, Indonesia and Malaysia especially, are covered by the same global satellite layers as everywhere else this tool screens.
A screening result is only as good as the mill relationship behind it
Independent trade-data verification, real customs-level shipment records showing which specific overseas suppliers a given mill actually bought from, is some of the strongest evidence this project has found for any commodity. That kind of verification is a different, valuable check from a satellite screen: it confirms a real trading relationship exists, not what land-cover the plot behind it shows.
A satellite screen tells you what happened on a specific coordinate. It doesn't tell you whether the coordinate you were given actually corresponds to the mill or estate your oil physically came from. Those are two separate questions, and closing the second one is an origin-side traceability problem this tool doesn't claim to solve.
Screen your palm oil suppliers
Send us your mill or plantation list and get a RED/AMBER/GREEN read back the same day, with before/after imagery for every screenable location. It supports your own Article 10/11 due diligence; it isn't a substitute for it and isn't a Due Diligence Statement.