Welcome to the June 2026 edition of the Suciu Partners Digital Compliance Insight. As we cross the mid-year mark, the European regulatory landscape has moved decisively from the drawing board to the audit room. With landmark frameworks like the AI Act, DORA, and the Data Act now actively reshaping market realities, businesses face an unprecedented compliance density. This rapidly evolving environment creates a dual imperative for corporate leaders, multinational operators, and tech providers: Mastering the "Summer of Enforcement" in the EU, where the looming August countdown for the AI Act, the rigid board-level SLA mandates of DORA, and the multi-tier supply chain pressures of NIS2 and the Data Act dissolve the luxury of compliance silos, replacing them with a strict, unified audit reality. Navigating "Global Fragmentation and ESG Convergence", where a complex patchwork of state-level US laws, Asian data localization hybrid models, and aggressive platform liabi...
The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: A New Era for Business Responsibility Authors: Miruna Suciu, Elisa Cristea The European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) in force since July 2024, represents a landmark shift in how businesses must approach their environmental and social impacts across global value chains. This groundbreaking legislation establishes mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence requirements for companies operating in the EU market. Core Requirements The directive requires large companies to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for adverse impacts on human rights and the environment throughout their value chains. This includes both their own operations and those of their established business relationships. Companies must: (i) Integrate due diligence into their corporate policies (ii) Identify actual and potential adverse impacts (iii) Take appropriate measures to prevent and mitigate these impacts ...