Brussels, 13 November 2025 – Today, the European Parliament adopted in a tense vote the Commission’s proposal to destroy the EU’s corporate sustainability law. A majority of parliamentarians composed of EPP, ECR, and PfE, voted to hollow out the due diligence directive by depriving victims of corporate violations from access to courts in all EU countries and removing all climate obligations. The European Parliament approved a legislative proposal that gives companies a free pass to damage the climate and violate workers rights throughout their value chains.
Frances Verkamp, corporate accountability campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said:
“While the world looks to COP30, the EPP banded with the far right to make sure business actors no longer have to create and adhere to climate transition plans. They betrayed their own promises by ignoring several moderate centre-left proposals. If this is the dynamic, the centre-far right alliance on the next deregulation omnibuses will bulldoze protections for citizens and the environment.”
Renew, S&D and the Greens were proposing to the EPP compromise amendments with slight improvements in scope and stakeholder engagement, which – while not delivering real access to justice for victims of corporate negligence – would have respected the EPP’s red lines on civil liability and preserved criteria for climate transition plans.
Friends of the Earth Europe condemns the position of the EP on Omnibus 1. The JURI proposal and the amendments passed today, aside from the deletion of climate transition plans, leave so many loopholes for companies to escape consequences for their involvement in human rights and environmental abuses, as to have rendered the CSDDD another paper pushing, greenwashing exercise, and more of a force against access to justice, than for attaining it. The three positions that will now be taken into trilogues underline what we believed all along, that dismantling the Green Deal is the core objective of the suite of Omnibuses put on the table by President Von der Leyen’s Commission.
