A CSDDD human-rights impact trigger tied to rights and prohibitions listed in the Directive’s Annex and referenced international instruments.
Adverse human rights impact is a rights-boundary term, not every workplace or community concern. It requires evidence of the right affected, the person or group affected, the business relationship or activity involved, and the response taken.
The CSDDD definition covers abuse of one of the human rights listed in the Annex and is tied to referenced international instruments, including the International Bill of Human Rights and ILO core conventions; it is not every workplace or community concern in general language.
Directive (EU) 2024/1760 on corporate sustainability due diligence
an impact on persons resulting from: (i) an abuse of one of the human rights listed in Part I, Section 1, of the Annex to this Directive, as those human rights are enshrined in the international instruments listed in Part I, Section 2, of the Annex to this Directive; (ii) an abuse of a human right not listed in Part I, Section 1, of the Annex to this Directive, but enshrined in the human rights instruments listed in Part I, Section 2, of the Annex to this Directive, provided that: — the human right can be abused by a company or legal entity; — the human right abuse directly impairs a legal interest protected in the human rights instruments listed in Part I, Section 2, of the Annex to this Directive; and — the company could have reasonably foreseen the risk that such human right may be affected, taking into account the circumstances of the specific case, including the nature and extent of the company’s business operations and its chain of activities, the characteristics of the economic sector and the geographical and operational context;
Reference: Article 3, point c
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with CSDDD due-diligence boundary policy: separates impact classification, legal-source boundaries, response calibration, scope decisions, partner identity, and relationship evidence.
CSDDD entered into force on 25 July 2024. Member State transposition is required by 26 July 2026. The Directive applies first to the largest companies (net turnover > €1.5 billion EU-wide and > 1,000 employees) from 26 July 2027, with phased extension to smaller companies over the following years.
Implementation records should capture right affected, stakeholder group, incident record, response measure, source instrument, severity/likelihood assessment, location, business-partner link, grievance or engagement record, and remediation status.
Adverse human rights impact is the human-rights impact boundary control for due-diligence evidence. It should connect the affected right, stakeholder group, incident evidence, relationship/activity, and response measure without treating all social-risk language as the same legal category.