Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements

6.11.2025 A10-0197/349

Amendment 349

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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

Recital 5

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(5) Article 19a(1) of Directive 2013/34/EU requires large undertakings and small and medium-sized undertakings with securities admitted to trading on an EU regulated market, excluding micro-undertakings, to prepare and publish a sustainability statement at individual level. To reduce the reporting burden on undertakings, the obligation to prepare and publish a sustainability statement at individual level should be reduced to large undertakings with an average of more than 1000 employees during the financial year. Considering that for an undertaking to be large it has to exceed two out of the three criteria in Article 3(4) of Directive 2013/34/EU, this means that to be subject toto the reporting requirements an undertakings must have an average of more than 1000 employees during the financial year and either a net turnover above EUR 50 million or a balance sheet total above EUR 25 million.

(5) Article 19a(1) of Directive 2013/34/EU requires large undertakings and small and medium-sized undertakings with securities admitted to trading on an EU regulated market, excluding micro-undertakings, to prepare and publish a sustainability statement at individual level. To reduce the reporting burden on undertakings, the obligation to prepare and publish a sustainability statement at individual level should be reduced to undertakings with an average of more than 3000 employees and a net turnover of EUR 900 000 000 during the financial year. It should be possible to exempt ultimate parent undertakings which are financial holding undertakings not involved in management activities from complying with reporting obligations.

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6.11.2025 A10-0197/350

Amendment 350

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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

Recital 7

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(7) Article 1(3) of Directive 2013/34/EU specifies that credit institutions and insurance undertakings that are large undertakings or small and medium-size undertakings – excluding micro-undertakings – with securities admitted to trading on an EU regulated market are subject to the sustainability reporting requirements set out in that Directive, regardless of their legal form. Considering that the scope of individual sustainability reporting should be reduced to large undertakings with an average of more than 1000 employees during the financial year, that reduction in scope should also apply to credit institutions and insurance undertakings.

(7) Article 1(3) of Directive 2013/34/EU specifies that credit institutions and insurance undertakings that are large undertakings or small and medium-size undertakings – excluding micro-undertakings – with securities admitted to trading on an EU regulated market are subject to the sustainability reporting requirements set out in that Directive, regardless of their legal form. Considering that the scope of individual sustainability reporting should be reduced to undertakings with an average of more than 3000 employees and a net turnover of EUR 900 000 000 during the financial year, that reduction in scope should also apply to credit institutions and insurance undertakings.

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6.11.2025 A10-0197/351

Amendment 351

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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

Recital 9

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(9) Article 19a(3) of Directive 2013/34/EU requires undertakings to report information about the undertaking’s own operations and about its value chain. It is necessary to reduce the reporting burden for undertakings in the value chain that are not required to report on their sustainability. The reporting undertaking, for the purposes of reporting sustainability information at individual or at consolidated level, as required by Directive 2013/34/EU, and without prejudice to Union requirements to conduct a due diligence process, should therefore not seek to obtain from undertakings established in or outside of the Union in its value chain that have up to 1000 employees on average during the financial year any information that goes beyond the information specified in the standards for voluntary use by undertakings that are not required to report on their sustainability. The reporting undertaking should, however, be allowed to collect from such undertakings in its value chain any additional sustainability information that is commonly shared between undertakings in the sector concerned. Undertakings reporting on their value chain in accordance with those limitations should be deemed to comply with the obligation to report on their sustainability. Assurance providers should prepare their assurance opinion respecting the obligation on undertakings not to seek to obtain from undertakings in their value chain that have up to 1000 employees on average during the financial year any information that goes beyond the information specified in the standards for voluntary use by undertakings that are not required to report on their sustainability. For that purpose, the Commission should be empowered to adopt a delegated act to provide for sustainability reporting standards for voluntary use by undertakings that are not required to report on their sustainability. Those standards should be proportionate to, and relevant for, the capacities and the characteristics of those undertakings and to the scale and complexity of their activities. Those standards should also specify, where possible, the structure to be used to present that information.

(9) Article 19a(3) of Directive 2013/34/EU requires undertakings to report information about the undertaking’s own operations and about its value chain. It is necessary to reduce the reporting burden for undertakings in the value chain that are not required to report on their sustainability. The reporting undertaking, for the purposes of reporting sustainability information at individual or at consolidated level, as required by Directive 2013/34/EU, and without prejudice to Union requirements to conduct a due diligence process, should therefore not seek to obtain from undertakings with an average of more than 3000 employees and a net turnover of EUR 900 000 000 during the financial year any information at all. Undertakings reporting on their value chain in accordance with those limitations should be deemed to comply with the obligation to report on their sustainability. Assurance providers should prepare their assurance opinion respecting the obligation on undertakings not to seek to obtain from undertakings in their value chain that have up to 3000 employees and a net turnover of EUR 900 000 000 on average during the financial year any information at all.

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6.11.2025 A10-0197/352

Amendment 352

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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

Recital 14

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(14) Article 29b(4) of Directive 2013/34/EU requires sustainability reporting standards to not specify disclosures requiring undertakings to obtain from small and medium-sized undertakings in their value chain any information that goes beyond the information to be disclosed pursuant to the sustainability reporting standards for small and medium-sized undertakings with securities admitted to trading on an EU regulated market. Considering that small and medium-sized undertakings with securities admitted to trading on an EU regulated market should be excluded from sustainability reporting, and in order to reduce the reporting burden for undertakings in the value chain that are not required to report on their sustainability, the sustainability reporting standards should not specify disclosures requiring undertakings to obtain from undertakings in their value chain that have up to 1000 employees on average during the financial year any information that goes beyond the information to be disclosed pursuant to the sustainability reporting standards for voluntary use by undertakings that are not required to report on their sustainability.

(14) Article 29b(4) of Directive 2013/34/EU requires sustainability reporting standards to not specify disclosures requiring undertakings to obtain from small and medium-sized undertakings in their value chain any information at all. Considering that small and medium-sized undertakings with securities admitted to trading on an EU regulated market should be excluded from sustainability reporting, and in order to reduce the reporting burden for undertakings in the value chain that are not required to report on their sustainability, the sustainability reporting standards should not specify disclosures requiring undertakings to obtain from undertakings in their value chain that have up to 3000 employees and a net turnover of EUR 900 000 000 on average during the financial year any information at all.

Or. en

6.11.2025 A10-0197/353

Amendment 353

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a

Directive 2013/34/EU

Article 1 – paragraph 3 – introductory wording

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

The coordination measures prescribed by Articles 19a, 19b, 29a, 29aa, 29d, 30 and 33, Article 34(1), second subparagraph, point (aa), Article 34(2) and (3), and Article 51 of this Directive shall also apply to the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the following undertakings regardless of their legal form, provided that those undertakings are large undertakings which, on their balance sheet dates, exceed the average number of 1000 employees during the financial year:;

‘The coordination measures prescribed by Articles 19a, 19b, 29a, 29aa, 29d, 30 and 33, Article 34(1), second subparagraph, point (aa), Article 34(2) and (3), and Article 51 of this Directive shall also apply to the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the following undertakings regardless of their legal form, provided that those undertakings exceed, on their balance sheet dates, the average number of 3000 employees and a net turnover of EUR 900 000 000 during the financial year:’;

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6.11.2025 A10-0197/354

Amendment 354

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(1 a) in Article 19(1), the fourth subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘Undertakings which, on their balance sheet dates, exceed the average number of 3000 employees and a net turnover of EUR 900 000 000 during the financial year, shall report information on the key intangible resources and explain how the business model of the undertaking fundamentally depends on such resources and how such resources are a source of value creation for the undertaking.’ ;

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6.11.2025 A10-0197/355

Amendment 355

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a

Directive 2013/34/EU

Article 19a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

Large undertakings which, on their balance sheet dates, exceed the average number of 1000 employees during the financial year shall include in their management report information necessary to understand the undertaking’s impacts on sustainability matters, and information necessary to understand how sustainability matters affect the undertaking’s development, performance and position.;

‘Undertakings which, on their balance sheet dates, exceed the average number of 3000 employees and a net turnover of EUR 900 000 000 during the financial year shall include in their management report information necessary to understand the undertaking’s impacts on sustainability matters, and information necessary to understand how sustainability matters affect the undertaking’s development, performance and position.’;

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6.11.2025 A10-0197/356

Amendment 356

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a a (new)

Directive 2013/34/EU

Article 19a – paragraph 2 – point (a) (iii)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(a a) in paragraph 2, point (a)(iii) is deleted;

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6.11.2025 A10-0197/357

Amendment 357

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a b (new)

Directive 2013/34/EU

Article 19a – paragraph 2 – point (f) (iii)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(a b) in paragraph 2, point (f) (ii) is replaced by the following:

‘(ii) the principal actual or potential adverse impacts connected with the undertaking’s own operations;’;

Or. en

6.11.2025 A10-0197/358

Amendment 358

Pascale Piera, Ton Diepeveen, Ernő Schaller-Baross

on behalf of the PfE 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 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b

Directive 2013/34/EU

Article 19a – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(b) paragraph 3 is amended as follows:

deleted

(i) the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘Where applicable, the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall contain information about the undertaking’s own operations and about its value chain, including its products and services, its business relationships and its supply chain. Member States shall ensure that, for the reporting of sustainability information as required by this Directive, undertakings do not seek to obtain from undertakings in their value chain which, on their balance sheet dates, do not exceed the average number of 1000 employees during the financial year any information that exceeds the information specified in the standards for voluntary use referred to in Article 29ca, except for additional sustainability information that is commonly shared between undertakings in the sector concerned. Undertakings that report the necessary value chain information without reporting from undertakings in their value chain which, on their balance sheet dates, do not exceed the average number of 1000 employees during the financial year any information that exceeds the information specified in the standards for voluntary use referred to in Article 29ca, except for additional sustainability information that is commonly shared between undertakings in the sector concerned, shall be deemed to have complied with the obligation to report value chain information set out in this paragraph.;’

(ii) the following subparagraph is added:

‘The first subparagraph is without prejudice to Union requirements on undertakings to conduct a due diligence process.;’

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