EUDR imposes recurring evidentiary obligations on operators and traders of cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soya and wood products. Each produces a record only the obligated party controls. This Vocabulary fixes twenty of those obligations against their exact article in Regulation (EU) 2023/1115.

Under the EU Deforestation Regulation, national authorities already cross-check submitted coordinates against satellite imagery. That proves the state of the land. It does not prove that the specific batch of beans, timber, or cattle in a given shipment was ever physically on it.