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Supply Chain Due Diligence: An Overview of Key Developments in the EU in 2024 and Areas to Watch in 2025

Dec 16, 2024 Supply Chain Due Diligence: An Overview of Key Developments in the EU in 2024 and Areas to Watch in 2025

Supply Chain Due Diligence in the EU in 2024 – Whitepaper Overview:

The regulatory landscape for supply chain due diligence in the EU underwent significant transformation in 2024, representing a landmark effort by the EU to harmonize due diligence obligations across Member States. With implementation timelines extending into 2025 and beyond, businesses must start to prepare now to meet stringent compliance requirements.

This paper gives an overview of key regulatory developments with regards to supply chain due diligence in the EU in 2024 and looks ahead to what is coming down the line in 2025.

This Whitepaper Covers:

  • EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EU) 2024/1760 (CSDDD)
  • EU Deforestation Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 (EUDR)
  • Prohibiting Products Made with Forced Labour Regulation (EU) 2024/3015
  • Batteries and Waste Batteries Regulation (EU) 2023/1542
  • Areas to watch in 2025

*This whitepaper was originally published on 16th December, 2024. Further regulatory developments may have occurred after publication. To keep up-to-date with the latest compliance news, sign up to our newsletter.

Author

Joanne O’Donnell, Head of the Global Regulatory Compliance Team, Compliance & Risks

Joanne heads up the Global Regulatory Compliance team at Compliance & Risks (C&R) where she leads a team of international regulatory consultants in the EU and US. She qualified as a Solicitor in Ireland in 2003 and has extensive national and international legal experience. Prior to joining C&R in 2011, Joanne worked as a lawyer with the United Nations in Geneva as well as one of Ireland’s top-tier law firms. Joanne supports C&R’s clients with their global legal compliance challenges and has a particular focus on and interest in Sustainability, ESG, Climate Change, Forced Labor, and Human Rights.

Joanne has a Bachelor of Arts (Legal and French) and a Bachelor of Law (LLB) from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland and a Masters in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. She also has a Masters in French from the University of Limerick, Ireland and was recently awarded a Graduate diploma in Business and Human Rights from the University of Bergen, Norway. In November 2024, she was shortlisted as ESG Leader of the Year by the Irish Business Post.

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