TECHNICAL ROUND UP – EU MEMBER STATES FAIL TO IMPLEMENT MANDATED EUROPEAN SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING

European Union (EU) member states are failing to implement mandatory sustainability reporting rules imposed by the EU’s corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), the European Commission has concluded. It has opened infringement procedures against 17 of the 27 EU countries saying they have failed to properly write the directive into their national legislation: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Spain. If their governments fail to ...


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