EUDR GeoJSON rejected: polygon contains holes
A production-place polygon must be one contiguous area — interior rings (holes) are not accepted.
What the check requires
A blocking error — the EUDR information system refuses the file until it is resolved.
Why files fail this check
Holes typically arrive from GIS exports where an excluded area — a pond, a building, a patch of forest — was cut out of the parcel. The EUDR file format wants one production area per polygon, with no interior rings.
Because a hole reduces the polygon's area, removing it is not a neutral act: the declared production place grows by the hole's size.
How it gets fixed
The engine can remove the interior rings, keeping only the outer boundary. Since that changes the declared area, it always requires your confirmation — the free check shows a "Remove the holes" action per plot, never applies it silently, and records what was removed.
If the excluded area genuinely is not part of the production place, the honest fix is at the source: split the parcel into separate polygons that each cover only production land.