A regulatory term referring to (i) activities of a companys upstream business partners related to the production of goods or the provision of services.
Chain of activities is CSDDD's scope architecture for where due diligence applies across upstream and selected downstream activities. It is narrower and more legally shaped than the everyday phrase "value chain," because the Directive includes some downstream functions and excludes others.
Directive (EU) 2024/1760 on corporate sustainability due diligence
(i) activities of a company’s upstream business partners related to the production of goods or the provision of services by that company, including the design, extraction, sourcing, manufacture, transport, storage and supply of raw materials, products or parts of products and the development of the product or the service; and (ii) activities of a company’s downstream business partners related to the distribution, transport and storage of a product of that company, where the business partners carry out those activities for the company or on behalf of the company, and excluding the distribution, transport and storage of a product that is subject to export controls under Regulation (EU) 2021/821 or to the export controls relating to weapons, munitions or war materials, once the export of the product is authorised;
Reference: Article 3, point g
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.
This term matters when companies decide which suppliers, logistics steps, storage stages, and downstream relationships fall inside the Directive's due-diligence boundary. It also determines where risk mapping should stop and where additional commercial activity lies outside the core legal scope.
For Minespider, chain of activities is a scope-mapping term. It is the structure that lets a platform connect evidence and responsibilities to the portion of the commercial network the law actually cares about.