With the package now published, the legislative proposals will undergo the standard EU legislative process. The below reflects the status as per 23 April 2025. Please reach out to Deloitte for the latest updates.
The proposal for the ‘stop-the-clock’ Directive has been approved by both the European Parliament and the European Council in Q2 2025. The Directive was published in the EU Official Journal in April 2025. The Directive now needs to be transposed by Member States to national law, which has to be completed by the end of 2025. Although companies will not have legal certainty on these changes until the Directive is transposed by Member States, it is now likely the delays will ultimately be implemented.
The progress on a ‘substantive’ Directive amending the content of the CSRD and CSDDD is limited. The Directive is expected to be transposed by Member States to national law 12 months after entry into force but will first have to be negotiated between the co-legislative bodies of the EU, the timeline of which is currently still unclear.
The European Parliament has set out a tentative schedule for negotiations, with discussions starting as early as April and a plenary vote on the Parliament’s final position by October 2025. The European Council has called on the EU co-legislators to adopt the Substantive proposal as soon as possible in 2025. These timelines would mean that a final Trilogue agreement will likely not be reached before 2026.
Comments on the proposal by Members of the European Parliament and some Member States have been reported in the press, but neither the Parliament nor Council has formally published anything on their negotiating positions.
The draft Delegated Act amending the Taxonomy Regulation Delegated Acts will be adopted after a consultation period and will apply at the end of the scrutiny period by the European Parliament and Council.
Note that for Member States that have already transposed the current CSRD, these existing legislations remain in force until the proposed new Directives have been finalised and transposed by Member States to national law.