Regulatory: The Rules and Documents That Move Coffee

This section covers the rules and the documents that govern moving Indonesian green coffee across borders. There are two sides to that. The origin side is what Indonesia requires to export the coffee. The destination side is what the import market requires to clear it. A shipment has to satisfy both, and the paperwork is where the two meet.

The section is organised by document and rule, so you can read about the one you actually need. Three areas matter most for green coffee.

The first is the EU Deforestation Regulation, the EUDR, which governs how green coffee enters the European Union and what evidence of a deforestation-free, legal, traceable supply chain must travel with it. It has its own page, which is the source of truth: see EUDR, and the practical EUDR readiness checklist for getting a shipment ready.

The second is phytosanitary certification, the plant health document that certifies a consignment has been inspected and is free from quarantine pests. See Phytosanitary Certificates.

The third is certificates of origin, which attest where the coffee was produced. There is more than one kind, and they do different jobs. See Certificate of Origin.

For how these sit in the full shipment, see Logistics. To discuss a specific shipment, Contact Us.