{"id":621464,"date":"2025-12-09T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621464\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:56:12","slug":"eu-closes-deal-to-slash-green-rules-in-major-win-for-von-der-leyens-deregulation-drive-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621464\/","title":{"rendered":"EU closes deal to slash green rules in major win for von der Leyen\u2019s deregulation drive \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word “omnibus” has since become a mainstay of the Brussels bubble vernacular with the Commission putting\u00a0forward<\/a> at least 10 more\u00a0simplification bills on topics like\u00a0data protection,\u00a0finance,\u00a0chemical use,\u00a0agriculture\u00a0and defense.<\/p>\n

Less paperwork<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deal struck by\u00a0negotiators from the European Parliament, EU Council and the Commission\u00a0includes\u00a0changes to two key pieces of legislation in the EU’s arsenal of green rules:\u00a0The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive\u00a0(CSRD)\u00a0and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rules\u00a0originally\u00a0required\u00a0businesses large and small to collect and publish\u00a0<\/strong>data on their greenhouse gas emissions, how much water they use, the impact of rising temperatures on working conditions, chemical leakages and whether their suppliers \u2014 which are often spread across the globe \u2014 respect human rights and\u00a0labor\u00a0laws.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now the reporting rules will only apply to companies with more than 1,000 employees and \u20ac450 million in net turnover, while only the largest companies \u2014 with 5,000 employees and at least \u20ac1.5 billion in net turnover \u2014 are covered by supply chain due diligence obligations.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0also\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0have\u00a0to\u00a0adopt transition plans, with details on how they intend to adapt their business model to reach\u00a0targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Importantly the decision-makers got rid of an EU-level legal framework that allowed civilians to hold businesses accountable for the impact of their supply chains on human rights or local ecosystems.<\/p>\n

MEPs have another say on whether the deal goes through or not, with a final vote on the file slated for Dec. 16. It means that lawmakers have a chance to reject what the co-legislators have agreed to if they consider it to be too far from their original position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The word “omnibus” has since become a mainstay of the Brussels bubble vernacular with the Commission putting\u00a0forward at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11576,10684,2311,2437,30,2814,7962,53958,2000,299,5187,55223,4175,1195,4582,11665,809,14921,5111,2444,48,6648,3695,7162,49,1220,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-621464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-brussels-bubble","9":"tag-chemicals","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-companies","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-data-privacy","15":"tag-due-diligence","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-footprint","20":"tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","21":"tag-growth","22":"tag-human-rights","23":"tag-meps","24":"tag-negotiations","25":"tag-omnibus","26":"tag-parliament","27":"tag-regulatory","28":"tag-rights","29":"tag-supply-chains","30":"tag-sustainability","31":"tag-teresa-ribera","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","34":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115687835952329358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}