Deforestation regulation information flow in the food chain

With the deforestation regulation, companies in the food chain face entirely new requirements for collecting and sharing information. Information is needed from the primary production and, in some cases, even at the level of production batches. The development project responded to the industry's call by developing models that allow the necessary information to be collected and shared efficiently and consistently among the operators who need it.

Joint solutions aimed to avoid the costs of developing and maintaining company-specific and overlapping systems. The project considered the scalability of information flow also in light of other forthcoming legislative requirements. This improves operators' ability to respond quickly to changing legislation.

The member companies of the Food Data Finland project and also the operators of other industries affected by the deforestation regulation, can freely use the project's outputs in their own business.

Tasks and objectives

• The project identified the information needed for the deforestation regulation, which operators must be able to collect, produce and share from primary production to trade.
• The project described the necessary changes to processes, operating models and systems and evaluates their cost effects.
• The project also took into account the scaling of the model to other upcoming legislative requirements.
• The outputs of the project are a data model, a user manual and a data flow description of the information required by the deforestation regulation.
   

Project organisation

Project management: GS1 Finland

Expert organisations: Atria, Fazer, HKScan, Kesko, Kespro, Meira Nova, SOK and Valio

Project schedule

March 1, 2024 – August 30, 2024