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CSDDD After Omnibus I: What the New 2029 Deadline Really Means for Non-EU Companies If you searched for the CSDDD compliance deadline any time before this year, you probably landed on July 2026. That date is no longer correct, and companies still planning around it are working from an outdated map. The record, corrected The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive entered into force in mid-2024, with an original transposition deadline for EU member states set for July 26, 2026, followed by a phased rollout of obligations for companies through 2027-2029. That original schedule no longer applies. As part of the EU's broader "Omnibus I" simplification effort, the Commission, Parliament, and Council spent 2025 renegotiating both the CSDDD and its sister regulation, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. The final amending directive was published in the EU's Official Journal in late February 2026 and took legal effect on March 18, 2026. It rewrites...

  Starting Today, the EU Directly Supervises ESG Rating Providers As of today, July 2, 2026, any firm issuing, publishing, or distributing ESG ratings within the European Union falls under direct supervision by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). This is not a future compliance date to plan around. It is now in force. What actually changed today Until now, ESG rating providers operated in a regulatory gray zone across the EU. Unlike credit rating agencies, which have been subject to harmonized EU oversight for over a decade, ESG rating providers issuing scores on companies' environmental, social, and governance performance had no equivalent supervisory framework. Under the EU's ESG Ratings Regulation, that gap closes today. From this point forward, ESG rating providers operating in, or issuing ratings distributed into, the EU must be either authorized by ESMA directly (for EU-based providers) or recognized as an equivalent non-EU provider through an endorsemen...