# EUDR penalties and authorities by country

Last updated: 2026-11-02

Pick an EU country to see who enforces the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) there, whether its penalties law is adopted, a bill or not there yet, and the top fine for a company, linked to the national law, bill or draft where we found one. All 27 countries, checked 2 November 2026.

Open the tool: https://restorationscope.com/tools/eudr-penalties-by-country (free, no account).

Read more: [EUDR competent authorities and penalties in each EU country](https://restorationscope.com/blog/eudr-competent-authorities).

## How it works

1. Pick a country from the list, or from the countries grouped by where their penalties law stands.
2. Read its authority and EUDR page, and where its penalties law stands, each linked to its source where we found one.
3. Read the top fine for a company and the other penalties; for a bill or a draft, they are what it proposes. Share the page link to show someone the same country.

## Input and output

- Input: An EU country, picked from the list.
- Output: Its competent authority and EUDR page, where its penalties law stands (linked where we found a text), the top fine for a company and the other penalties, and the date they were checked.

## Example

Input:

```text
Germany
```

Output:

```text
Authority: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE). Penalties law: Bill in parliament. Top fine for a company: €10 million, or 4% of EU turnover, €10 million where a manager commits the Article 3 crime; the 4% for administrative offences, for companies with over €2.5 million EU turnover, in the bill.
```

## Limits

- It is a plain-language summary of each country’s law, bill or draft, not legal advice, and it doesn’t assess any company.
- Where a country has only a bill, a draft or an inquiry’s proposal, the penalties shown are what that text proposes; they can change, or never become law.
- “In force” is the national law’s status; the EUDR duties it enforces apply from 30 December 2026, or 30 June 2027 for micro and small operators established by 31 December 2024, except for products already covered by the EU Timber Regulation.
- “None found” means we found no national law setting EUDR fines on the official sites we could read; a few official sites block automated reading, so one may still exist.
- Authorities are checked against the Commission’s list updated on 12 October 2026, and penalties against each country’s own texts on 2 November 2026; later changes appear once the page is updated.

## Privacy

Nothing to upload and no sign-up: the page holds every country’s data and shows the one you pick.

## Questions

### What are the penalties for breaching the EUDR?

Each EU country sets them in its own law, which must provide at least what Article 25 requires: for a company, a maximum fine of at least 4% of its EU turnover, confiscation of the products and the revenue from them, up to 12 months' exclusion from public contracts and funding, and, for serious or repeated breaches, temporary bans on trading the products and a ban on simplified due diligence. As of 2 November 2026, 7 of the 27 countries have adopted a penalties law, and 3 of those are confirmed in force; we found no fine based on turnover in Belgium's or Lithuania's, and Denmark's sets no maximum.

### Who enforces the EUDR?

The competent authority each EU country designates under Article 14(1) of the regulation. It runs risk-based checks on operators, downstream operators and traders in its country, and can seize products and order corrections. Depending on the country, it or a court imposes the penalties national law sets. The Commission publishes the [list of competent authorities](https://circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/34861680-e799-4d7c-bbad-da83c45da458/library/f044a917-4640-4169-ad0a-d63609cfca55/details); its update of 12 October 2026 has no authority for Greece, Malta or Poland.

### What happens if a country has no penalties law by 30 December 2026?

The EUDR's obligations still apply there from 30 December 2026: it is a regulation, so it applies directly in every EU country. Operators that were natural persons or micro or small companies by 31 December 2024 start on 30 June 2027, except for products the EU Timber Regulation already covered (Article 38(3)). Penalties are the part each country must set in its own law (Article 25(1)). As of 2 November 2026, we found no penalties law adopted in 20 countries.

### How current is it?

Each country was checked on 2 November 2026, against the Commission's list of competent authorities and the country's own law, bill or draft, linked where we found one. Germany, Finland and Estonia have bills before parliament, and Ireland, Poland, Spain and Sweden only a draft or a proposal, so their penalties can still change. If a country's law or authority has changed, write to us at [info@restorationscope.com](mailto:info@restorationscope.com).