{"id":1729,"date":"2025-03-24T15:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:10:42","slug":"la-nouvelle-proposition-de-directive-omnibus-de-la-commission-europeenne-met-en-danger-le-devoir-de-vigilance-des-entreprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/2025\/03\/24\/la-nouvelle-proposition-de-directive-omnibus-de-la-commission-europeenne-met-en-danger-le-devoir-de-vigilance-des-entreprises\/","title":{"rendered":"The new 'Omnibus' Directive proposal from the European Commission endangers corporate due diligence obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 26, 2025, the European Commission unveiled an \u201cOmnibus\u201d Directive<\/a> proposal that threatens to strip the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive<\/a> (CSDDD) of its substance. Presented as a \"Simplification\"<\/a>, it proves to be a an major weakening<\/a> of already established due diligence obligations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the proposal introduces a \"legal ceiling\"<\/a>, limiting the scope of the requirements to levels below international standards<\/strong> such as the UN Guiding Principles or the OECD Guidelines. It also removes the obligation for companies to systematically conduct in-depth assessments of their indirect business partners: they would only be required to act in the event of \u201cplausible information\u201d indicating incidents or major risks. Furthermore, the periodic monitoring frequency would shift to every five years (instead of annual monitoring), effectively undermining the directive\u2019s preventive power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the text discards the EU civil liability regime, leaving each Member State to legislate on this matter.\u00a0The result<\/a>: a\u00a0fragmentation of the law and a weakening of legal certainty for victims<\/strong>. Along the same lines, financial sanctions, which were previously linked to turnover, would be reduced, encouraging some companies to view human rights violations as merely a \u201ccost of doing business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the Omnibus proposal no longer obliges a company to terminate a business relationship affected by adverse impacts, nor does it require consulting all stakeholders. The Commission boasts \"EUR 320 million in savings\"<\/a> thanks to these measures suggesting that the protection of human rights and the environment is being relegated to second place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The text must now be submitted to the Parliament and the Council for review and approval. There is still time to block the proposal<\/a> and ensure the protection of human rights and the environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le 26 f\u00e9vrier \u202f2025, la Commission europ\u00e9enne a d\u00e9voil\u00e9 une proposition de Directive \u00ab\u202fOmnibus\u202f\u00bb qui menace de vider de sa substance la Directive sur le devoir de vigilance des entreprises en mati\u00e8re de durabilit\u00e9 (CSDDD). Pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e comme une \u00ab\u202fsimplification\u202f\u00bb, elle se r\u00e9v\u00e8le \u00eatre une r\u00e9duction majeure des obligations vigilance d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9vues. D\u2019abord, la proposition cr\u00e9e un \u00ab\u202fplafond juridique\u202f\u00bb, limitant le champ des exigences au-dessous des […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237390538,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/justiceexpeerience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Joint-statement-on-Omnibus-2.png?fit=219%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peYfbV-rT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237390538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}