EUDR guide for exporters in Colombia

Colombia is a standard-risk country for the European Union. Your buyer will carry out full due diligence, and the point that usually takes most work here is showing the right to use each property.

Updated 6 November 2026

Showing the right to the land

The EUDR requires production to follow the law of the country, and that includes land use rights. In Colombia the reference record for ownership is the folio de matrícula inmobiliaria: the Agencia Nacional de Tierras treats it as the proper document to prove title to a property.

If the property has a folio, keep the number with the plot and check that the holder matches your supplier, or that a contract gives them the right to produce there.
If a grower occupies land with no folio or title, record what they have and ask a local adviser before including it in a batch for Europe. It may be a baldío, which has its own rules.
In indigenous resguardos the land cannot be sold, seized or acquired by possession, so the support will not be an individual deed. Document the authorisation from the resguardo's authority.

Many growers, one batch

Much production passes through cooperatives, mills and collectors. Each intermediary has to keep which plots fed each batch. Without that link the chain breaks, even if every plot is well documented.

What to have ready per plot

Coordinates with six decimals, or a polygon if the plot is over 4 hectares.
The matrícula number or the document that supports use of the land.
The production date or period.
Grower details and evidence of no deforestation after 31 December 2020.

Labour and environmental rules

Legality also covers the labour, environmental and tax rules that apply. The European Commission has announced a database of each country's relevant legislation: when it is available, use it to confirm the list.

The shared rules are in the guides on geolocation, the due diligence statement and country risk levels.

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Sources

This guide is general information, not legal advice. Local rules change: confirm the details with an adviser in your country.