Simplification · DD-01

Definition of 'stakeholders' who must be consulted is narrowed to workers/their representatives and individuals or communities directly affected by the company's, its subsidiaries', or its business partners' products, services and operations

Addressee Companies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760Act COM(2025) 81, 2025/0045 (COD)Article Art. 4(2), replacing Art. 3(1)(n) of Directive (EU) 2024/1760Class Businesses

What changes

Companies' mandatory-engagement pool shrinks to those directly affected; individuals or communities only indirectly affected, and broader civil-society representatives, drop out of the mandatory-consultation population.

Prior rule vs new rule

Prior rule

Obligation

Prior wording not available in the source file.

New rule

Obligation

Definition of 'stakeholders' who must be consulted is narrowed to workers/their representatives and individuals or communities directly affected by the company's, its subsidiaries', or its business partners' products, services and operations

Who is affected

Addressee

Companies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760

Class

Businesses

Sectors

No sector named — applies by size or activity

Applies

Once transposed by Member States (transposition due within 12 months of this Directive's entry into force)

Burden drivers

No burden drivers recorded on this provision.

CSDDD applies only above the higher, double threshold (over 1000 employees AND over EUR 450m turnover) — the 1000-employee-only band (C) is out.

Source text

Verbatim

‘stakeholders’ means the company’s employees, the employees of its subsidiaries and of its business partners, and their trade unions and workers’ representatives, and individuals or communities whose rights or interests are or could be directly affected by the products, services and operations of the company, its subsidiaries and its business partners and the legitimate representatives of those individuals or communities;

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