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Every step to get CSDDD-ready, on one checklist.
A plain-English readiness checklist that walks you through the CSDDD due-diligence cycle. One free PDF with two editions - one for in-scope companies building a programme, one for suppliers answering customer requests - so you can follow the steps that apply to you.
What's inside
- A scope check up front, so you confirm whether the CSDDD applies to you directly, indirectly or not at all before doing anything else.
- The six-step due-diligence cycle in order: embed it in policies and a code of conduct, identify and assess impacts, prevent and mitigate, remediate, run a grievance mechanism, and monitor and communicate.
- What a supplier due-diligence questionnaire (DDQ / SAQ) should cover, and how to keep it proportionate under the Omnibus value-chain cap.
- The key dates: transposition by 26 July 2028 and the single application date of 26 July 2029.
- For suppliers: exactly what to prepare so a customer request is quick to answer, and how to push back politely if you are over-asked.
- The official sources behind each step, so it stays checkable.
Two editions, one checklist
In-scope company edition
For the sustainability or compliance manager at a large, in-scope company building an audit-ready due-diligence programme across many suppliers. The full six-step cycle, with the detail you need to make the programme defensible and keep it current before the 2029 application date.
Supplier edition
For the smaller company that just received a CSDDD due-diligence questionnaire from a big customer. The shortest path to a calm, complete answer: the policies and records to prepare once, and how to push back politely if you are asked for more than is proportionate.
Both editions are in the one PDF, so you can follow whichever fits you.
Who this is for
Anyone who's been handed “the CSDDD” and doesn't know where to start. Whether you are standing up a due-diligence programme at a large company, or you are a supplier trying to answer a customer's questionnaire without losing the account, the checklist gives you an order to work in and a way to show your progress.