Plot risk check
ERWAY’s name for the satellite-backed review of one plot against the cut-off and its geolocation — an input to Article 10 assessment, not a substitute for the operator’s legal duty.
What it means
Plot risk check is platform vocabulary for geometry in, dated land-use evidence out. It is how ERWAY packages the geospatial half of “is this plot deforestation-free against 31 December 2020?”
In the regulation
Operators must assess whether products are deforestation-free. Plot-level geospatial evidence is the usual way to support that assessment for land-based commodities under Articles 9 and 10. The regulation does not name a “plot risk check” product — the legal duties remain collection, assessment, mitigation and filing.
How ERWAY treats it
In the product tour and resource-hub tips, “plot risk” points at this module. Related reading on this site is the risk-assessment and mitigation field guide — geolocation articles explain the geometry that must exist before any risk layer is meaningful.
Related terms
- Geolocation data
Plot of land
Land within a single real-estate property, homogeneous enough that deforestation risk can be assessed as one unit — not an arbitrary farm name that mixes unlike patches.
- Regulation & scope
Deforestation
Conversion of forest to agricultural use after the cut-off — one of three conditions a product must meet (with legality and a due diligence statement).
- Regulation & scope
Cut-off date
31 December 2020 — the date after which deforestation (and, for wood only, forest degradation) disqualifies relevant products as deforestation-free.
- Risk & benchmarking
Risk assessment
Article 10 evaluation of whether relevant products present more than a negligible risk of non-compliance — required at standard and high risk; often skipped only under Article 13.
Keep reading
Risk & benchmarkingRisk assessment and mitigation: building an evidence file that holds up
What EUDR risk assessment has to cover, what 'negligible risk' and 'substantiated concern' mean in practice, and how to document mitigation so it survives a competent authority check.
6 min read
Geolocation dataGeoJSON that passes: the geometry errors that bounce a statement
The geometry and file errors that cause EUDR plot data to fail validation, why each one happens, and how to catch them while they are still cheap to fix.
5 min read