{"title":"CSRD Sustainability Reporting For Non-listed SMEs: European Regulators Remain Challenged","authors":"Sina Allgeier, Robert Feldmann","doi":"10.1515/ecfr-2023-0019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<jats:target target-type=\"next-page\">438</jats:target>The recently adopted Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires all large undertakings as well as listed SMEs to report on sustainability matters. Albeit not in the direct scope of the CSRD, non-listed SMEs will be de facto obliged by their business partners and investors to report accordingly. Hence, a separate reporting standard for non-listed SMEs is of pivotal importance. The CSRD, however, fails to endow the European Commission with the necessary delegated legislative power. Yet, EFRAG plans to develop standards specifically designed for non-listed SMEs. The European Commission may and should publish those standards as non-binding recommendations under Art. 288 para. 5 TFEU. Prior to that, the Commission must feed those standards into the endorsement procedure established by the CSRD regarding delegated acts.<jats:target target-type=\"next-page\">439</jats:target>","PeriodicalId":54052,"journal":{"name":"European Company and Financial Law Review","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Company and Financial Law Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ecfr-2023-0019","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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438The recently adopted Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires all large undertakings as well as listed SMEs to report on sustainability matters. Albeit not in the direct scope of the CSRD, non-listed SMEs will be de facto obliged by their business partners and investors to report accordingly. Hence, a separate reporting standard for non-listed SMEs is of pivotal importance. The CSRD, however, fails to endow the European Commission with the necessary delegated legislative power. Yet, EFRAG plans to develop standards specifically designed for non-listed SMEs. The European Commission may and should publish those standards as non-binding recommendations under Art. 288 para. 5 TFEU. Prior to that, the Commission must feed those standards into the endorsement procedure established by the CSRD regarding delegated acts.439
期刊介绍:
In legislation and in case law, European law has become a steadily more dominant factor in determining national European company laws. The “European Company”, the forthcoming “European Private Company” as well as the Regulation on the Application of International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS Regulation”) have accelerated this development even more. The discussion, however, is still mired in individual nations. This is true for the academic field and – even still – for many practitioners. The journal intends to overcome this handicap by sparking a debate across Europe on drafting and application of European company law. It integrates the European company law component previously published as part of the Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (ZGR), on of the leading German law reviews specialized in the field of company and capital market law. It aims at universities, law makers on both the European and national levels, courts, lawyers, banks and other financial service institutions, in house counsels, accountants and notaries who draft or work with European company law. The journal focuses on all areas of European company law and the financing of companies and business entities. This includes the law of capital markets as well as the law of accounting and auditing and company law related issues of insolvency law. Finally it serves as a platform for the discussion of theoretical questions such as the economic analysis of company law. It consists of articles and case notes on both decisions of the European courts as well as of national courts insofar as they have implications on European company law.