What does CSDDD mean?
CSDDD sets EU due diligence duties for large companies on human rights and the environment.
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive requires in-scope companies to identify and address actual and potential adverse impacts in their own operations, subsidiaries and chains of activities. After amending Directive (EU) 2026/470, the core focus is on very large companies: EU companies with more than 5,000 employees and over EUR 1.5bn net worldwide turnover, and affected non-EU companies with corresponding EU turnover. Application generally starts on 26 July 2029. In Germany, existing LkSG processes can be a practical starting point, even though CSDDD and national law must be assessed separately.
Why does it matter for DPP and compliance?
Product passports are not a complete due-diligence system, but they can provide defensible supply-chain and product evidence: suppliers, material origin, risk substances, certificates, audit trails and remediation actions become traceable at product level.
What should teams prepare?
Companies should connect DPP data models with risk analysis, complaints procedures and remediation tracking. Requests to business partners should be targeted, proportionate and source-based so product passport data supports due diligence without unnecessary data collection.
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