2023

EUDR Alignment
Peterson Sustainable Sourcing – Traceability Services
Agenda 01 General introduction & meeting objectives (20min)

02 Business proposition for EUDR (15min)

03 New business opportunities (15min)

Q&A including technical questions regarding

04 Mondeleze (20min)

05 Plan for next meeting (5min)

 EUDR within Peterson services
Business

Certification
Units

Sustainability Services Sustainable Sourcing Services

Support

Regenerative agriculture
ESG strategy & GHG & environmental Private programs
Agri & food *Feasibility studies (regional & global)
reporting performance management
1. General introduction

*Implementation support (Farm4Impact)

* Feasibility analysis
*Monitoring & Evaluation
*ESG strategy *GHG emissions inventory *Strategic support
*Crop Consultancy
*ESG reporting *Life cycle assessment *Protocol & standards
Services lines

*GHG inventory & Carbon credits

*Materiality analysis *GHG emission reduction
*Sustainable KPI design strategy
*Digital dashboard
*Environmental impact
implementation
risk mgmt
*Gap assessment
*Carbon market& strategies
* CDP related services
development
Bioenergy *On-field services
Traceability *On-boarding & trainings
*Supply chain Transparency *Monitoring, evaluation &
*Due diligence reporting
*Traceability protocols -> EUDR
Textile *Traceability Tech Tools

Sustainable Finance Social impact

*Social & environmental due diligence *Impact/risk assessment *Standard development
*Gap assessment against instruments aligned to ESG & prioritization *Supplier capacity building
Forestry *ESG services *Technology-enabled service
principles
*Sustainable finance program implementation *Stakeholder engagement delivery
 Why do we do it
• Companies will need to comply by 31 Dec 2024 – already happening

-> Ongoing project with Mondeleze – compliance

• Expected a large increase in projects volumes & requests –new &

1. General introduction

existing clients

• Regulation is complex, requiring different expertise

• Regular updates coming from the Commission & need to interpret the
requirments & clarify these to our clients

Gaining an understanding of the value chain is a pivotal first step

in understanding & mitigating risk, while driving improvement
and following the latest regulations.
 Risk & opportunities
Risks
• Fragmented approaches & projects development
• No sharing of knowledge on the regulation across the teams
1. General introduction

• No-uniform quality in Projects delivery

• Misinterpretation on some of the requirements

Opportunities
• Consolidate workflow under on-going SuSo experts team
(across traceability & private programs)
• Position the group as the Leading consultancy on EUDR
regulation
 Step by Step & responsibilities
EUDR due diligence EUDR due diligence EUDR
preparation implementation support compliance
1. General introduction

P.Tech & Certification

Academy P.Tech & Inspection

1. Project 2. Training 3. Internal 4. Kick-off 5. Risk 6. Risk 7. Reporting 8. EUDR

preparation & capacity procedures & info assessment mitigation compliance
building & templates gathering
 EUDR Team
Global EUDR Interim Team lead
* Andrea Ferrazzo – Sust. Sourcing & Palm

Americas
Experts
* Alejandra Duarte Ramos – Soy/RTRS
1. General introduction

* Caio Lourencini Cavellani – P.Tech

* Tomas Pueta – soy (CU)
* Sebastian Mendive – Inspection & logistics

* Daniel Costa – Sust. Sourcing & regen ag

EME
* James Schadenberg – Forestry & packaging expert (CU)
* Casandra Ferrazzini de Frutos – forestry expert & packaging

A
* Bjorn Broekman – soy Cefetra/RTRS

Asia
* Sebastiaan Merten – Sust. Sourcing & traceability
* Supun Sachithra Nigamuni – Palm & rubber expert (CU)
 Objectives of the EUDR Team
Regular meeting (every month), to discuss:

Commission & commercial Technical Capacity building

1. General introduction

• Share updates originating from the EU Commission regarding • Clarify technical • Sharing of materials for
the regulation & its application. This includes on-going interpretations of projects management development
discussion in origin countries over the regulation application the regulation originating from on-going
projects
• Share updates regarding on-going projects & new leads
• Share updates originating from individual
• share updates regarding competitors & potential partnerships certification schemes who are updating to
with other solutions provided in one or more specific commodities comply to the regulation (e.g. RTRS,
included in the regulation RSPO, FSC, …)

• Clarify the service offerings of Peterson VS CU. This includes

updates of commercial materials to clients
 Work in progress – EUDR
What was already done so far?

Smartsheet:
2. Work in progress – EUDR

• Step-by-step
through the process
of an EUDR project
• Days of work
estimated

Commercial material
(linkedIn):

• 1-pager to advertise
our services
 Commercial leads

Round for everyone to present updates on:

3. Business opportunities

• Opportunities/commercial leads
• What is needed to go get it (commercial materials, new
employees, internal training, where…)
• Questions?
 Main Questions & Answers (1)
Categor Questions Answers
y
Definition of trader/operator is not fully clear

What will Mdlz need to provides as an exporter?

What do we need to produce for manufactured products, eg due diligence statement per manufacturing lot (batch
number) / per sku over x period etc

Are we a trader when we use a Co Man?

EUDR Regulation
Practicalities

How do we pass details of due diligence reference number to customers (traders) and when and on what

How can we demonstrate we have due diligence to our customers? Eg sharing policies or does it have to be via each
due diligence statement

Do regulations require traceability of each production batch to individual due diligence certificates, eg production, lot
number xyz contains dairy due diligence certification 123 / Soy lecithin certicate 456 and palm certificate number 567

Which Mdlz entity name needs to go into due diligence statements and what entities actually place our products on the
EU markets. What is implication of Op Co role in the process?
4. Q&A

Role of copacker & co manufacturers - operator higher up value chain? Mdlz trader in this instance?

Due diligence docs required for all

What if exporting company is a Swiss company, eg Tree. How to share diligence statements
products exported from Europe
 Main Questions & Answers (2)
Categor Questions Answers
y
Need a due diligence statement for all manufactured
Cocoa Are biscuits/choco bakery Skus containing cocoa in scope? chocolate products (no need if not chocolate: e.g.
biscuits)

Paper - what is in scope, if any. Specifically, what about pallet labels, consumer unit packaging Packaging which is used to support, protect, carry a
(eg carton or wrapper) & point of sale. Do labels count as support? Primary carton boxes? product placed on market is not impacted by legislation
Timber
Are forests which are legally protected (eg CIV) subject to the rule which says applicable
deforested land is that deforested since December 2020

Dairy Shall we define dairy protocols in anticipation of their involvement

4. Q&A
 Next EUDR meeting
 General update on regulations & commercial leads we may have

 Technical update for each of the commodity more specifically

- Soy: Alejandra (work with RTRS, producers how are they getting ready & what offering we can do?)
5. Plan for next meeting

- Palm: RTRS update

- Forestry: Casandra
- Coffee
- Cocoa
- Cattle

Coffee Soy Cocoa Palm oil Timber Cattle

 For CU to bring their main points for compliance

 Inspection too?
Thank you