Requirement · DD-06

Do not seek more information than the voluntary standard from direct business partners with fewer than 500 employees when mapping the chain of activities, unless additional information is necessary and cannot reasonably be obtained elsewhere

Addressee Companies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760Act COM(2025) 81, 2025/0045 (COD)Article Art. 4(4), inserting Art. 8(5) of Directive (EU) 2024/1760Class Businesses

What changes

Direct business partners with fewer than 500 employees gain protection from open-ended mapping-stage information requests; large companies gain a corresponding new restriction on what they may request from them.

The rule

New — no predecessor

Obligation

Do not seek more information than the voluntary standard from direct business partners with fewer than 500 employees when mapping the chain of activities, unless additional information is necessary and cannot reasonably be obtained elsewhere

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.

If you are under 500 employees, this protects you as a direct business partner rather than binding you directly.

Source text

Verbatim

Member States shall ensure that, for the mapping provided for in paragraph 2, point (a), companies do not seek to obtain information from direct business partners with fewer than 500 employees that exceeds the information specified in the standards for voluntary use referred to in Article 29a of Directive 2013/34/EU.

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Settled later in secondary legislation. The cap's ceiling is set by the voluntary reporting standard referred to in Art. 29a of Directive 2013/34/EU.