💡 What are Risk Mitigations and Why are They Important?
When conducting a risk assessment, particularly for EUDR compliance, you may encounter situations where a risk is flagged as "non-negligible" (for example, sourcing from an area with a higher risk of corruption or complex local land tenure laws). Under the EUDR, you cannot legally place these products on the market until you have applied appropriate mitigation measures to bring that risk down to a negligible level.
Defining Risk Mitigations in Interu helps your team:
Standardise Compliance Responses: Create a master list of approved corrective actions (e.g., "Request independent third-party legality audit" or "Collect secondary polygon GPS data") so your compliance team responds consistently to specific flags.
Prove Due Diligence to Auditors: When you attach a mitigation to a flagged risk indicator, you build an explicit audit trail that demonstrates active, responsible oversight to regulatory bodies.
Save Time via Reusability: Once a mitigation is defined, it is stored centrally. You can link it across different assessment templates and indicators without rewriting the instructions every time.
Go to Admin → Risk Mitigations to view or edit the mitigation list.
Add new mitigations (e.g., “Provide additional documentation”).
Mitigations can also be created directly within a template while editing indicators. New mitigation can be reused for other indicators.
