{"id":1804,"date":"2025-04-17T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:10:09","slug":"omnibus-la-dereglementation-au-detriment-des-droits-humains-des-travailleur%c2%b7euse%c2%b7s-et-de-lenvironnement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/2025\/04\/17\/omnibus-la-dereglementation-au-detriment-des-droits-humains-des-travailleur%c2%b7euse%c2%b7s-et-de-lenvironnement\/","title":{"rendered":"Omnibus: deregulation at the expense of human rights, workers, and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">On 26 February, the European Commission published its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.ec.europa.eu\/document\/download\/161070f0-aca7-4b44-b20a-52bd879575bc_en?filename=proposal-directive-amending-accounting-audit-csrd-csddd-directives_en.pdf&amp;prefLang=fr\">Omnibus simplification package<\/a>, including&nbsp;<strong>a proposal to delay by one year the transposition deadline and the first phase of application of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/FR\/TXT\/PDF\/?uri=OJ:L_202401760\">Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>(CSDDD), known as \"\u00a0<em>Stop the Clock<\/em>\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">On 26 March, the Council of the European Union<strong>approved its negotiating position on\u00a0<em>Stop the Clock<\/em>\"\u00a0<\/strong>. On Thursday 3 April, the European Parliament held its final vote on the initiative, reaching an agreement and supporting&nbsp;<strong>a two-year delay to the CSRD and a one-year delay to the CSDDD<\/strong>, while rejecting proposals to postpone their implementation until 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Next steps:&nbsp;<strong>The \"Stop the Clock\" process is expected to progress swiftly<\/strong>, likely avoiding a trilogue, since the co-legislators and the Commission are aligned in their positions. In order to come into force, the legislative proposal now requires formal approval by the Council, which could be delivered before summer 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">As for the complementary part of the Omnibus package, which includes a draft directive amending the content of the CSRD and the CSDDD (also known as the \u201cSubstance\u201d proposal), the timeline remains unclear, with final adoption unlikely before the end of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The Omnibus proposal has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/corporatejustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Joint-CSO-TU-statement-Omnibus-14-January-2025.pdf\">condemned<\/a>&nbsp;by more than<strong>360 civil society organizations<\/strong>, who fear a&nbsp;<strong>backslide in corporate accountability.<\/strong>. Trade Unions, major businesses, and responsabiel investors have echoed their concerns. Civil society&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/corporatejustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Joint-CSO-statement-reacting-to-Omnibus-publication-March-2025.pdf\">is calling for a rejection of any weakening of the CSDD<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>insists that discussions on the CSRD should be limited to interpretative measures<\/strong>, without reopening the legal text itself. The implementation of this crucial legislation to tackle human rights violations, environmental harm, and the climate crisis would therefore be delayed. Given the urgency of these issues, such a delay is simply irresponsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Recently,\u00a0<strong>over 20 Belgian civil society organizations, including Avocats Sans Fronti\u00e8res<\/strong>, voiced their concerns about the Commission\u2019s Omnibus legislative proposal. They\u00a0<strong>irmly reject any attempt to revise the text of the CSDDD<\/strong>\u00a0and call on Belgian policymakers to defend these frameworks during the upcoming European negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-b29d4327 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/asf.be\/publication\/omnibus-deregulation-at-the-cost-of-human-rights-workers-and-environment-dutch-and-french\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read joint statement<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le 26 f\u00e9vrier, la Commission europ\u00e9enne a publi\u00e9 son&nbsp;paquet de simplification Omnibus, incluant&nbsp;une proposition visant \u00e0 reporter d&rsquo;un an le d\u00e9lai de transposition et la premi\u00e8re phase d&rsquo;application de la&nbsp;Directive sur le Devoir de Vigilance en mati\u00e8re de Durabilit\u00e9&nbsp;(CSDDD), connue sous le nom de \u00ab\u00a0Stop the Clock\u00ab\u00a0. Le 26 mars, le Conseil de l&rsquo;Union europ\u00e9enne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237390538,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","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\/04\/Omnibus.png?fit=626%2C435&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peYfbV-t6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceexpeerience.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}