Risk Mitigation Measures
Overview
Risk mitigation measures are the actions you take, or require of a supplier, to bring a risk criterion down to an acceptable level. In kolum you define measures once, per EUDR risk criterion, and they are then available to apply during any risk assessment.
🟢 Why this matters. Risk mitigation is the third pillar of due diligence (Article 11). Where a risk assessment finds more than a negligible risk, you must take mitigation measures before the product can be placed on the market. This is where those measures live. See the consolidated EUDR text.
How the page is organised
The page lists one row per EUDR risk criterion, grouped exactly like the assessment criteria. If you work with more than one company, the page follows the company selected in the company selector — each row's action reflects the measures defined for that company.
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Risk Category | The group the criterion belongs to (Geographic and Country Risk, Indigenous Peoples, Documentation and Supply Chain, Compliance and Enforcement, Additional Information). |
| Risk Criteria | The criterion, with its Article 10(2) letter, for example (a) Country Risk (Art. 29). |
| Mitigation Measures | How many measures are defined for that criterion, or No measures defined yet. |
| Actions | Edit Measures where some exist, or Add Custom Measures where none do. |
Recommended and custom measures
Two kinds of measure are available for each criterion:
- Recommended measures come from the EU Commission and reflect the mitigation measures set out in Article 11, such as requiring additional information, data, or documents, and carrying out independent surveys or audits.
- Custom measures are ones you define yourself, for your own compliance framework. Custom measures are saved permanently and carry an active/inactive state: deactivate a measure to stop offering it in new assessments without losing it, and reactivate it later if you need it again.
Both are stored globally and reused across every assessment, which is the benefit of defining them here: set a measure once, apply it wherever that criterion appears.
In this section
- Define measures for a risk criterion. Select recommended measures, add custom ones, and attach supporting documents.
- Use mitigation measures in a risk assessment. Apply a defined measure to reduce a criterion during Step 2.