Legal frameworks
The Sustainable Cocoa Programme presents the following documents to summarise relevant legal reforms adopted by producing countries to create an enabling framework for sustainability in the cocoa sector, and for making it compliant with regional and international standards and regulations.
General information
- Factsheet - Unpacking legality requirements under the EU Deforestation Regulation (English, Français) - September 2025
- Cocoa Insight - Navigating legality due diligence in the context of the EUDR: lessons from cocoa legal studies in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana (English, Français, Español) - September 2025
- Cocoa insight - Demonstrating legal compliance of cocoa production and trade (English, Français, Español) - February 2024
- Methodological note: developing a legality due diligence tool for EUDR compliance (English) - September 2025
Latin America
Webinar FIIAP: 3º diálogo sobre cacao sostenible - Diligencia debida para el cacao legal en el marco del EUDR - June 2024
Relevant national legal requirements
Côte d'Ivoire
- Support tool for due diligence on the legality of cocoa in the framework of the EUDR
- Module 1: Legal requirements relevant to cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire (English, Français) - July 2025
- Module 2: Recommendations on due diligence regarding the legal requirements of cocoa produced in Côte d’Ivoire (English, Français) - July 2025
- PowerBI dashboard: Legal requirements and due diligence recommendations relating to cocoa produced in Côte d'Ivoire
- Rapport de l'atelier de consultations sur la légalité du cacao en Côte d'Ivoire - September 2024
Ghana
- Support tool for due diligence on the legality of cocoa in the framework of the EUDR
- Report of the stakeholder engagement workshop on the legal requirements for cocoa production and trade in Ghana - 1 August 2024
- Report of the stakeholder engagement workshop on the legal requirements for cocoa production and trade in Ghana- kick-off - 6 July 2024
Cameroon
- Support tool for due diligence on the legality of cocoa under the EUDR
- Module 1: Legal requirements relevant to cocoa in Cameroon (English, Français) - July 2025
- Module 2: Recommendations on due diligence regarding the legal requirements of cocoa produced in Cameroon (English, Français) - July 2025
- PowerBI dashboard: Legal requirements and due diligence recommendations relating to cocoa produced in Cameroon
- Orientations de diligence raisonnée pour le critère du RDUE relatif à la légalité du cacao produit au Cameroun - Compte-rendu de l’atelier de consultation - November 2024
- Rapport de l’atelier de consultations sur la légalité du cacao au Cameroun - September 2024
- Rapport de la réunion de validation des exigences légales pertinentes à la production et le commerce du cacao au Cameroun - September 2024