Glossary

Account owner: The account owner sets up the organisation account and team. An account owner can manage organisation settings, create and edit records. The account owner can invite administrators and make other users account owners.

Administrator: The administrator invites and manages lower access users, including granting access to external organisations and controlling the level of permission. The administrator can manage organisation settings, create and edit records.

Certificate: Certification that confirms products are managed in a way that preserves biological diversity and benefits the lives of local people and workers, while ensuring it sustains economic viability.

Delivery: Point in the supply chain when an actual product leaves one location (e.g.: forest, sawmill, warehouse) and gets sent to another location, which is the next link in the supply chain.

Document: Any relevant documentation that may further support authenticity and accuracy of product claims. Documentation can be verified either by the company itself or a third party.

Downstream: Describes the supply chain flow from an upstream supplier source to a downstream buyer from an upstream supplier’s perspective.

Due Diligence Statement - An operator or trader can form and submit a due diligence statement on their behalf to an authorised representative, and are responsible for both the product’s compliance and contents, as well as accuracy of the due diligence statement.

Geolocation: Location of a plot of land where the harvesting or gathering of materials and products occur. It is described by means of latitude and longitude coordinates corresponding to at least one latitude and longitude point and using at least six decimal digits.

Geojson file: Array of lines, points and polygons to represent coordinates of a plot of land.

ID: Unique Identifier (e.g.: invoice number, delivery number, shipment number, item number).

Input: Refers to the items that have gone into a transformation process. Each input must state an input date when the input was added to the process. This can either be an exact date or a date range.

Item: Describes a single instance of a product which can be assigned a unique identifier. Therefore, it can be distinguished from other items which have the same product.

Links: “Links” or “relationships” between each organisation along your supply chain.

Location: Location where each physical activity occurs along the supply chain.

Location type: E.g.: forest, sawmill, trader, manufacturer, warehouse, etc.

Material: Any raw or processed material contained in your product.

Operator - An operator (sometimes referred to as an importer), under the EUDR, is required to be able to show that it has exercised due diligence (to be compliant with EUDR) to ensure that it does/has not imported or exported prohibited products originating from land deforested on or after 31 December 2020 or has contributed to forest degradation. An operator can be an individual or company or business that first makes available forest risk commodities on the EU market (e.g importer) or exports them as part of commercial activity (e.g trader, exporter).

Organisation: Any organisation within your supply chain, including the main organisation.

Output: Refers to products which have been created as a result of an input process. Each output must state a date when the output was created. This can either be an exact date or a date range.

Process: Any process of transforming, storing, assembling, or delivering a product/item, etc.

Product: Merchandise your organisation is importing and/or exporting.

Supply Chain: Network of stakeholders involved in the production and delivery of a product or service.

Supply Chain Map: Visual representation of the sequence and processes involved in the production and distribution of a commodity.

Trader - refers to any person in the supply chain apart from the operator who, within commercial activity, makes the relevant forest risk product available on the EU market for distribution, consumption or use. A non SME Trader has the same due diligence requirements and responsibilities that an Operator does.

Upstream: Describes the supply chain flow from an upstream supplier source to a downstream buyer from the buyer’s perspective.