In this essential episode for legal professionals, company directors, Company Secretaries, and key decision-makers, we're diving deep into a significant regulatory development: the postponement of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

Drawing directly on information from a recent article in Paperjam English News, we analyse the legal, regulatory/compliance, and governance impact of this European Parliament decision, which is notably supported by the Luxembourg government.

We understand these directives are complex, so our goal is to make this subject easy to understand. We break down the key points and highlight relevant responsibilities:

• We explain the rationale behind the postponement – providing businesses with greater predictability and allowing Luxembourg companies valuable time to prepare better.
• We detail the Luxembourg government's position: full support for reducing administrative burdens and introducing proportionality, while crucially upholding the core objectives of human rights and environmental protection.
• Crucially, this isn't just a delay. We discuss the plans for targeted reductions and simplifications of obligations – a substantive revision of the texts aiming for simplification while respecting the directives' fundamental goals.
• We look at what this means for legal certainty and how this fits into broader European efforts to enhance business competitiveness by reviewing regulatory burdens.

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