The aim of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour in companies’ operations and across their global supply and value chains. It has entered into force in July 2024 and the EU Member States are working on the transposition of the Directive into national law. Companies throughout the EU will be obliged to ensure compliance with environmental and human rights standards in their supply and value chains. What will the new directive bring and how can companies prepare for it?
Akademie Fresenius is bringing to you a brand-new international conference on the EUs’ Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence. This conference explores the overall idea and impact of the CSDDD with a focus on risk management, legal consequences and practical experiences.
On 25 July 2024, the Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD, Directive 2024/1760) entered into force.
The CSDDD will impose rigorous sustainability and human rights due diligence obligations on a broad scope of companies operating within the EU. The CSDDD is closely linked to the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive). But while CSRD forces companies to talk about their risks, CSDDD is about doing. It requires companies to identify, prevent, and mitigate potential or actual adverse human rights and environmental impacts connected with their operations upstream and downstream. Companies have to publicly communicate on sustainability due diligence, establish a complaints procedure and can face far-reaching penalties. The CSDDD also provides access to grievance mechanisms and legal remedies by introducing a civil liability scheme with the right to full compensation and enables trade unions and NGOs to enforce those rights. The effects on companies in scope as well as SMEs will be relevant soon and affect procurement, quality & security, legal etc. Do you also wonder what the new directive will bring and how your company can prepare for it? Then join us and find answers to your questions!
Professionals from all sectors that will be affected by the CSDDD and working in the fields of:
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We are currently in the process of compiling our event programme in close cooperation with our team of experienced speakers.
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Name
Company
Ludovica Chiussi Curzi
University of Bologna, Italy
Leonie Evans
Law firm Meisterernst Rechtsanwälte, Germany
Leonie Evans, Meisterernst Rechtsanwälte (law firm), advises and represents national and international clients in all matters of German and European food and feed law as well as intellectual property and competition law. The focus of her legal work is on providing comprehensive advice to nationally and internationally operating companies in the food industry, in particular on issues of product categorisation and marketability, on labelling and product advertising of food supplements, foods for special medical purposes (FSMP), organic and conventional foodstuffs. She also focuses on sustainability issues, the EU Green Deal, EU sustainability legislation such as CSDDD, CSRD, EUDR, Green claims, packaging law and the German Act on supply chain due diligence (LkSG).
morelessFranziska Humbert
Oxfam Germany
Harald Küppers
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany
Harald Küppers is a political scientist and has worked for many years for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and its predecessor organisation, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). He is currently the Programme Manager of the ‘Sector Dialogues Business and Human Rights’. Sector dialogues bring together business, civil society, the social partners and policymakers to ensure fairness in global supply and value chains. They are based on the National Action Plan (NAP), which implements the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and can help fulfil the requirements of the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
morelessMichael Lendle
AFC Risk & Crisis Consult, Germany
Andreas Meisterernst
Law firm Meisterernst Rechtsanwälte, Germany
Andreas Meisterernst, Meisterernst Rechtsanwälte (law firm), primarily advises and represents national and international companies from the food and consumer goods industry with regard to the entire regulatory framework, often in complex cases at the interface between law and science. His focus is on strategic aspects of product development, distribution in the EU including contract drafting, labelling and advertising with a particular focus on the impact of unfair commercial practices (e.g. health claims, green claims, law on unfair competition). He advises on internal risk management and corporate social responsibility in the value chain including EU and national sustainability legislation and stakeholder issues.
morelessFranziska Oehm
German Institute for Human Rights
Theresa Usler
AFC Risk & Crisis Consult, Germany
Gregor Wolf
Wholesale and Foreign Trade Association Hamburg, Germany
Gregor Wolf holds a master’s degrees in economics and Japanese Studies and studied in Berlin and Tokyo. He started his career with the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA) in Berlin and is now the Director General of the Wholesale and Foreign Trade Association Hamburg (WGA). He closely followed and engaged also in the process of developing the German German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG).
morelessMarjan de Bock-Smit
ImpactBuying, The Netherlands
Marjan de Bock-Smit is the founder of ImpactBuying in the Netherlands. The company has build 15 years of experience on collecting and verifying data from supply chains all around the World to allow their clients to effectively execute Due Diligence risk management in their supply chains. Marjan de Bock-Smit, will share her experience about the reality of fact-based risk management.
morelessWe have reserved a limited number of rooms for our participants at reduced rates at the hotel. These rooms can be booked up to 4 weeks prior to the start of the event. Please book early and directly through the hotel quoting „Akademie Fresenius“ as reference.
Participation Fee: € 1,995.00 plus VAT.
The registration fee includes the following benefits:
Representatives of an authority or a public university are therefore eligible for a reduced fee of € 895.00 plus VAT per person (please provide evidence). The reduced fee cannot be combined with other rebates.
Group Reductions
For joint bookings received from one company we grant a 15% discount from the third participant onwards.
Terms of Cancellation / Book without Risk
Written cancellations or transfers will be accepted free of charge up to four weeks prior to the start of the event. After this date and up to a week prior to the start of the event we will reimburse 50% of the registration fee. We cannot, unfortunately, provide refunds for later cancellations. However, in this case we will provide you with the event documentation after the event.
Please note that you can name a substitute free of charge at any time.
Would you have liked to attend this event, but cannot spare the time?
For the price of 295,00 € plus VAT you can order a complete set of event documentation. A few days after the event you will receive the access data for the restricted download section of our Website. There you will find all presentations (subject to the approval of our speakers) as pdf-files.
Anja Staudenmaier
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-54
astaudenmaier@akademie-fresenius.de
Anja Staudenmaier
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-54
astaudenmaier@akademie-fresenius.de
Anja Staudenmaier
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-54
astaudenmaier@akademie-fresenius.de
Alexandra Schardt
Organisation and participant management
+49 231 75896-74
aschardt@akademie-fresenius.de
Alexandra Schardt
Organisation and participant management
+49 231 75896-74
aschardt@akademie-fresenius.de
Present your Company at the Event.
You can personally present your products and services directly to your specified target group. We are happy to provide you with further information on our range of available options – from displaying company information at the reception counter to presenting your company with an exhibition stand.
We would be pleased to assist you personally:
Monika Stratmann
Phone: +49 231 75896-48
info@akademie-fresenius.de
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Please contact us:
Katharina Geraridis
Phone: +49 231 75896-67
presse@akademie-fresenius.de
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