EU: what consequences will the omnibus package have for the CSRD and CSDDD?

Presented yesterday, the omnibus package proposed by the European Commission will significantly modify the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives (CSRD and CSDDD), if it is adopted by the Council and Parliament. Praised by Brussels as a text that will reduce the administrative burden on companies while maintaining sustainability objectives, its detractors denounce a dismantling of the regulatory framework on CSR. Mind RH has spoken to experts to take stock of the situation.

By Antoine Piel. Published on 27 February 2025 à 17h45 - Update on 27 February 2025 à 18h10

In November, on first mentioning the omnibus package, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, said: “It’s our task to reduce this bureaucratic burden without changing the correct content of the law that we all want.” This is not the interpretation that NGOs, trade unions and defenders of the CSRD and CSDDD have of the text presented yesterday. “These proposals are crude and badly thought-out, risking actually creating bureaucracy and uncertainty,” Lara Wolters, rapporteur to Parliament on the directive adopted in 2024, wrote in reaction on LinkedIn. “MEPs must now succeed where the Commission has failed – finding a compromise for common-sense simplification, without lowering standards.” But the balance of power in the European Parliament has changed since the elections in June: the social democrats,…

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