Verified evidence
Deterministic first. Extraction from structured, signed documents is deterministic; AI models never decide facts. Every attribute carries its source document and a confidence level on a hash-chained audit trail. An unresolved low-confidence attribute holds issuance of the whole passport: a registered human attester resolves it first. AI for scale, humans for the final word.
What the confidence levels mean
- HIGH: structured, signed or officially issued evidence, verified and consistent across sources, or lifted by a registered human attestation.
- MEDIUM: valid documentary evidence with limited verification depth; flagged and published, awaiting stronger corroboration.
- LOW: insufficient, contradictory or unverifiable information; holds issuance of the whole passport until a registered human attester resolves it.
See the confidence rail illustrated, with more detail, on our homepage. See more on the homepage
The EUDR evidence map for importers
Article 9(1) of the EU Deforestation Regulation lists eight information requirements, points (a) to (h), that an operator must collect and keep for every shipment. Every row becomes an attribute on the passport: source document linked, confidence scored, human review where required. The last row is not an Article 9(1) item and is marked as such.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, Article 9(1), points (a) to (h); point (b) as replaced by Regulation (EU) 2025/2650, Article 1, point (8)(a); Article 4(2) and Article 33 for the due diligence statement (primary source) · checked on 23 August 2026
| Evidence | Article | What the operator must be able to show | Typical source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product and commodity description | Art. 9(1)(a) | Trade name and type, the commodities contained or used, and for wood the species names | Commercial documents |
| Quantity | Art. 9(1)(b) | Net mass in kilograms for products entering or leaving the market, with the supplementary unit where one applies | Invoice and customs documents |
| Country of production | Art. 9(1)(c) | Origin, and the relevant parts of the country where that matters | Commercial and customs documents |
| Geolocation of production plots | Art. 9(1)(d) | All plots of land, or all establishments where cattle were kept | Producer land records and registries |
| Production period | Art. 9(1)(d) | The date or time range of production | Producer and lot records |
| Supplier and recipient identity | Art. 9(1)(e), (f) | Name, postal address and email of who supplied the products and of who they were supplied to | Invoices and contracts |
| Deforestation-free evidence | Art. 9(1)(g) | Adequately conclusive and verifiable information that the products are deforestation-free, against the 31 December 2020 cut-off | Land records, geospatial evidence, attestation |
| Legality | Art. 9(1)(h) | Adequately conclusive and verifiable information that production followed the producer country's relevant legislation | Official records |
| Due diligence statement reference | Art. 4(2) and Art. 33, not Art. 9(1) | The DDS (Due Diligence Statement) submitted in the EU Information System (TRACES (Trade Control and Expert System (the EU's import-notification platform))). This is not an Article 9(1) information requirement: it rests on Article 4(2) and Article 33. | The operator's own filing |
The EUDR clock
EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation) applies from 30 December 2026 for medium and large operators, and for micro and small enterprises already covered by the EU Timber Regulation. Remaining micro and small enterprises follow on 30 June 2027. Prepare your evidence chain before the deadline, not after it.
EUDR overview
The evidence importers must hold: what to check and where to improve.
See the EUDR overviewFrequently asked questions
- How much of this actually runs?
- The pipeline that produced the published passport runs end to end: ingestion, deterministic extraction, confidence scoring, human attestation where confidence is low, and issuance of a signed credential. The passport on this site is that pipeline's output, not a mockup of it.
- Human review sounds expensive. Does it scale?
- Review is confidence-driven, not blanket: most attributes verify deterministically and never need a human. A registered attester steps in only where confidence is low, reviews at attribute level, and every review is recorded on the audit trail. Human judgment is spent where it changes the outcome, not on reading everything twice.
- What if the documents were never organised?
- That is the normal starting point, and it is the one the demonstration starts from. Documents arrive as they exist, are sorted into evidence classes, and what is missing per attribute is shown rather than assumed. Organising the backlog is the first thing the pipeline does, not a precondition for running it.
