chain of activities

Definitions over time (1)

25/07/2024 – 17/04/2025 Article 3, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) Scope: Whole act

1. For the purpose of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:

‘chain of activities’ means:(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;

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