The European Commission ran an open online consultation on implementation guidelines for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) from 12 June to 14 August 2026, with contributions from various participants including civil society, international, and union organisations (see timeline below for a selection of published submissions).

Business and Human Rights Centre (BHRC) and nine of its global partners coordinated on a range of (15) key questions from the consultation survey. BHRC submitted these joint responses as part of its wider consultation input and on behalf of the partners: ProDESC and CIELO, Mexico; Bantay Kita, Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), and Environmental Legal Assistance Center, Philippines; Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI), Kenya; SPEK-HAM, Indonesia; Pastoralists Indigenous Non-Governmental Organizsations Forum (PINGO’s Forum), Tanzania; Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of The Witwatersrand, South Africa

You can find the 15 jointly endorsed responses and BHRC's full input attached. Several organisations from this group also participated in the consultation with complementary, individual submissions, such as ProDESC's, which you can find attached as well.

A common thread across responses is the call for implementation guidelines that live up to the spirit and potential of the CSDDD and provide clarity on:

• meaningful, inclusive and safe rights- and stakeholder engagement as a key due diligence component at all stages, including risk scoping, assessment and prioritisation as well as the provision of remedy;
• genuine due diligence that goes beyond auditing and tick-box approaches to include adjustments to brands' own business and purchasing practices where these exacerbate human rights and environmental issues at supplier level;
• effective human rights and environmental protections, including for workers, Human Rights Defenders, communities and Indigenous Peoples, as well as with regard to gendered, intersectional, collective and cumulative risks and harms.