Glossary

Account Owner: The primary user role responsible for setting up the organisation account and team.

Administrator: An administrative user role capable of managing organisation settings, creating/editing records, and managing other users' permissions.

Certificate: Third-party compliance documentation (such as FSC or PEFC) verifying that an organisation or location meets specific sustainability and legal standards.

Delivery: A specific point in the supply chain where a physical shipment leaves one location and transits to another.

Document: Supporting files—such as invoices, harvest permits, or bills of lading—that verify the authenticity and legality of your data.

Downstream: The forward flow of the supply chain moving away from your current position toward the next buyer, distributor, or final end market.

Due Diligence Statement (DDS): A mandatory formal declaration submitted to the EU's TRACES NT system confirming that a product is legal and deforestation-free.

Geojson File: A standard spatial data file format used in Interu to upload and map the exact geographic boundaries of a harvesting plot.

Geolocation: The precise geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) of the forest plots where your raw materials were harvested.

ID: A unique, traceable identifier tied to a specific transaction, asset, or file (e.g., invoice numbers or item barcodes).

Input: The specific physical items consumed during a transformation process (e.g., logs entering a sawmill).

Item: A distinct, physical batch or single instance of a product assigned a unique identifier to track it through the supply chain.

Links: The digital connections, relationships, or transactional pathways established between different organisations along your supply chain.

Location: Any physical site where operational or logistical activities occur along the supply chain (e.g., harvest plots, warehouses).

Location Type: The specific category assigned to a physical site within Interu, such as forest, sawmill, trader, or manufacturer.

Material: The fundamental raw or botanical input contained within your products (e.g., the specific tree species harvested to make wood goods).

Operator: Any natural or legal person who first places relevant forest risk commodities on the EU market or exports them.

Organisation: Any legal entity that owns, trades, or handles a given product within your supply chain, including your own company, suppliers, and customers.

Output: The resulting physical items generated by a transformation process (e.g., sawn timber exiting a sawmill).

Process: Any operational activity mapping how physical inputs become new outputs where items are transformed, stored, or assembled.

Product: The merchandise or goods your organisation is importing, processing, or exporting.

Supply Chain: The entire network of legal entities, locations, and logistics steps involved in the production and distribution of a commodity.

Supply Chain Map: The interactive visual flowchart within Interu that maps the sequence, transit routes, and transformation steps of your commodities.

Trader: Any person or business in the supply chain (other than the initial operator) who distributes or sells a relevant forest risk product already placed on the EU market.

Upstream: The backward flow of the supply chain moving away from your current position toward the raw material origin or original supplier.