Ecopreneur.eu in the media: Commission approach with Omnibus is not entirely rational

Brussels, April 4, 2025: Ecopreneur.eu is quoted in an editorial essay ‘Rules are also there to help companies’ in the Dutch financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad (FD) on the European Commission’s recent proposal for an Omnibus ‘Simplification’ Package. This new piece of legislation should simplify the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy. The FD paragraph containing the quote read as follows: 

 “With Von der Leyen’s proposal, everything is open again – with all kinds of ambiguity as a result. In addition, under the guise of ‘the fewer rules, the better’, the Commission also wants to delete parts of the directives that are useful. ‘Like the sector-specific reporting standards,’ says Arthur ten Wolde, Executive Director of the European Sustainable Businesses Federation, Ecopreneur.eu. These actually simplify reporting for companies, because they are tailor-made. ‘The way the Commission is approaching this is not entirely rational.'”

Ecopreneur.eu is currently advising the European Parliament on minimising the watering down of the existing laws, starting with guaranteeing the availability of sector-specific reporting standards and extending due diligence beyond direct suppliers.

Find the full article HERE (N.B. in Dutch, copyright protected behind a paywall)