The EU Commission presented the so-called Omnibus I package on 26 February 2025. The proposal significantly waters down the recently adopted directives on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSRD). Their implementation is also to be delayed. Important achievements for workers, the environment and the climate are thus being undermined and threaten to lose their impact. The EU Commission is presenting the proposals as measures to reduce bureaucracy and promote the EU's competitiveness. In reality, this is deregulation in favour of companies.

More than 360 trade unions and civil society organisations are jointly calling on the Council of the EU and the EU Parliament to reject the EU Commission's proposals to weaken the CSDDD. With regard to the CSRD, far more companies than envisaged by the EU Commission must remain in the scope of application. AK EUROPA supports the joint statement.