Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements

6.11.2025 A10-0197/347

Amendment 347

Kira Marie Peter-Hansen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Report A10-0197/2025

Jörgen Warborn

Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements

(COM(2025)0081 – C10-0037/2025 – 2025/0045(COD))

Proposal for a directive

Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 10

Directive (EU) 2024/1760

Article 22 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

Member States shall ensure that companies referred to in Article 2(1), points (a), (b) and (c), and Article 2(2), points (a), (b) and (c), adopt a transition plan for climate change mitigation, including implementing actions, which aim to ensure, through best efforts, that the business model and strategy of the company are compatible with the transition to a sustainable economy and with the limiting of global warming to 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement and the objective of achieving climate neutrality as established in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, including its intermediate and 2050 climate neutrality targets, and where relevant, the exposure of the company to coal-, oil- and gas-related activities.;

Member States shall ensure that companies referred to in Article 2(1), points (a), (b) and (c), and Article 2(2), points (a), (b) and (c), adopt and put into effect a transition plan for climate change mitigation, which aims to ensure, through best efforts, that the business model and strategy of the company are compatible with the transition to a sustainable economy and with the limiting of global warming to 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement and the objective of achieving climate neutrality as established in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, including its intermediate and 2050 climate neutrality targets, and where relevant, the exposure of the company to coal-, oil- and gas-related activities .

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6.11.2025 A10-0197/348

Amendment 348

Kira Marie Peter-Hansen

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Report A10-0197/2025

Jörgen Warborn

Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements

(COM(2025)0081 – C10-0037/2025 – 2025/0045(COD))

Proposal for a directive

Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 12

Directive (EU) 2024/1760

Article 29

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(12) Article 29 is amended as follows:

deleted

(a) paragraph 1 is deleted;

(b) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2. Where a company is held liable pursuant to national law for damage caused to a natural or legal person by a failure to comply with the due diligence requirements under this Directive, Member States shall ensure that those persons have a right to full compensation. Full compensation shall not lead to overcompensation, whether by means of punitive, multiple or other types of damages.;’

(d) paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4. Companies that have participated in industry or multi-stakeholder initiatives, or used independent third-party verification or contractual clauses to support the implementation of due diligence obligations may nevertheless be held liable in accordance with national law.;’

‘The civil liability of a company for damages as referred to in this Article shall be without prejudice to the civil liability of its subsidiaries or of any direct and indirect business partners in the chain of activities of the company.;’

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