The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European federations of sectoral unions strongly condemn the European Commission’s Omnibus proposal, which constitutes a direct assault on corporate accountability, workers’ and trade union rights, and environmental protections. The unions demand that the European Parliament rejects this package and ensures that the core objectives of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) as well as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) and the protections provided therein are safeguarded from this deregulation agenda. The Omnibus proposal, if enacted, would dismantle key provisions and objectives of the CS3D, making it effectively toothless.
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