EU: SOMO’s updated Datahub identifies 1,400 corporate groups covered by the CSDDD
"Updated Datahub shows 1,400 corporate groups covered by weakened CSDDD", 14. April 2026
Following the Omnibus I revision of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), SOMO is launching an update of the CSDDD Datahub. The Datahub provides an overview of the corporate groups and companies covered by the CSDDD, as well as sectoral and country-level information...
In total, SOMO’s CSDDD Datahub identifies 2,907 companies that meet the CSDDD thresholds. These companies belong to 1,447 corporate groups, one-third of which are headquartered outside the EU...
Companies will have to comply with the CSDDD by July 2029...
With 280 corporate groups in the Datahub, Germany remains the EU country with the largest number of corporations covered by the CSDDD. It is followed by France (153), Italy (85), and the Netherlands (77). Outside the EU, the United States has the largest number of corporate groups (182), followed by the United Kingdom (69), Japan (51), and Switzerland (47). Only 14 of the 27 EU countries host ten or more corporations covered by the CSDDD, and four countries have no companies covered at all.
Despite the narrowing of the CSDDD thresholds, the law still covers the largest corporations in the EU economy that generally play an important role in global value chains. The CSDDD also still covers some of the world’s largest polluting companies, including those in the fossil fuel sector. Over one-fifth of the corporations covered by the CSDDD operate in the manufacturing sector, followed by wholesale and retail (13 per cent) and the services sector (8 per cent)...
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