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.
What it means
Risk assessment sits between collecting information and deciding whether mitigation is needed. It weighs plot evidence, supply-chain complexity, country tier and other Article 10 criteria.
In the regulation
Article 10 lists criteria operators must take into account. The output is whether risk is negligible or not. Under simplified due diligence (Article 13), assessment is not required unless information indicates a risk — and only when the Article 13 conditions hold.
How ERWAY treats it
Assessment screens combine satellite plot risk, questionnaire results and country context into an auditable outcome aligned with the criteria the articles name.
Related terms
- Risk & benchmarkingNegligible risk
Negligible risk
Assessment outcome for a specific product and supply chain: risk of non-compliance is no more than negligible. Distinct from a country “low risk” label.
- Risk & benchmarkingMitigated
Mitigation
Article 11 measures that must bring risk to negligible before goods move — there is no residual-risk category to park a more-than-negligible finding in.
- Risk & benchmarking
Simplified due diligence
Article 13 path that switches off risk assessment and mitigation when every plot is low-risk and mixing/circumvention risks are negligible — it never switches off geolocation, the DDS, or Article 12.
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.
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Risk & benchmarkingEUDR country risk classification: which obligations change, tier by tier
A complete tier-by-tier comparison of EUDR obligations: information collection, due diligence systems, risk assessment, mitigation, mixing rules, substantiated concerns and authority check rates.
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