What should I do with my supplier's DDS number?

Keep the DDS number, do not resubmit it yourself

You retain the reference number (and the associated verification number) of the due diligence statement from your supplier; it does not need to be submitted again to the EU information system. That number is assigned as soon as a due diligence statement is submitted to the system, and it is the key with which a competent authority can retrieve that statement. If you receive a product from a supplier further down the chain for which such a statement has already been submitted, the usual practice is that you can use that number to demonstrate that due diligence has already been performed for that product, without having to rebuild the entire process of geolocation data, risk assessment and documentation yourself.

In practice, this means that the number is recorded per product stream or shipment, together with the other documents you maintain anyway, and for the same retention period of five years. If you sell the product on in turn, you pass the number on to your own customer, so that the chain remains traceable back to the original statement. What the number does not do is replace a judgment: the existence of a statement says something about the fact that due diligence has been performed, not that eudri.com or anyone else classifies the underlying product as deforestation-free. That assessment remains with the market operator who drew up the statement and with the competent authority that oversees it.

The legal basis: Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1115

This procedure follows from Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, which governs the due diligence statement and the role of the reference number, in conjunction with the provisions on the EU information system in which statements are registered and assigned a number. Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 does not change this mechanism fundamentally: for the simplified statement that this amending regulation makes possible, a number is also created that is retained and passed on further. For the precise wording and exceptions, the text on EUR-Lex is the appropriate source.