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CSRD and CSDDD in Practice

Facilitator: Mirjam Koroman, Sustainability Training Specialist

Location: Le Premier Hotel, Zagreb, Croatia

Dates: 01 – 05 February 2027

The uncertainty is over.

The Omnibus I Directive settled the scope and content of both the CSRD and the CSDDD in March 2026, the simplified ESRS arrived in late 2026, and national transposition lands across the Union by March 2027. If your organisation reports for the first time in the 2027 cycle, the speculation phase is behind you and the work is in front of you: a double materiality assessment that survives assurance, a data architecture with named owners, and a value chain you can actually answer for.

This five-day course exists for the people who must build all of that. It is hands-on and tool-heavy from the first morning: you work on your own organisation throughout the week (a full case company is provided if you prefer), and you leave with completed templates, not just notes: a working materiality assessment, an ESRS gap register, a value chain risk map, and a 12-month workplan presented and peer-tested before you take it home.

Who should attend?

This course is planned as hands-on. Delegates work on their own organisation throughout the week and leave with completed templates, not just notes.

  • Sustainability managers and reporting leads,
  • Financial controllers with ESRS responsibility,
  • Supply chain and procurement professionals,
  • Compliance and legal officers, and
  • Internal audit staff preparing for assurance.

Day one: The regulatory landscape after Omnibus

Where CSRD and CSDDD actually landed, stripped of a year of speculation.

  • Scope and thresholds after Omnibus I: who reports, who conducts due diligence, and from when
  • The wave timeline, transition reliefs and Member State options.
  • The value chain cap and the voluntary VSME standard for companies below the thresholds
  • Working session: scoping your own organisation and mapping your reporting gap

Day two: Double materiality in practice

The heart of the CSRD, run as a full working day rather than a lecture.

  • Impacts, risks and opportunities: building the assessment step by step
  • Stakeholder mapping and evidence: what assurance providers will ask to see
  • Scoring, thresholds and documentation under the simplified ESRS
  • Working session: a double materiality assessment for your organisation, peer-reviewed in groups

Day three: From assessment to disclosure

Turning the assessment into a report that survives assurance.

  • The simplified ESRS: what was removed, what stayed, and where judgement is still required
  • Data architecture: owners, systems, controls and the audit trail
  • Climate transition plan disclosure under CSRD (and why its removal from CSDDD changes less than headlines suggest)
  • Working session: drafting disclosure text and building your ESRS gap register

Day four: Value chain due diligence

From reporting to responsibility: the CSDDD’s risk-based due diligence in practice.

  • The due diligence cycle: identify, prevent, mitigate, remediate, communicate
  • Supplier engagement, model contract clauses and the limits of paper compliance
  • Grievance mechanisms and remediation that work in practice
  • Working session: risk-mapping a value chain and prioritising supplier action

Day five: Consolidation and capstone

  • Morning: building the 12-month reporting and due diligence workplan: milestones, owners, resources
  • Afternoon capstone: each delegate presents their workplan to the room and receives structured peer feedback – precisely the test it will face at home

The pair pathway: one company, one roadmap

Is your Geschäftsführer or board asking the strategic questions behind this work? The three-day leadership course runs the following week -companies sending one person to each register at a pair rate and receive a facilitated joint follow-up session where workplan and mandate become one roadmap.

Registration

Places are limited to keep the room small. Secure yours below.

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All excluding Croatian VAT (PDV, 25%). The leadership fee includes working lunches and the executive dinner; the pair rate includes the joint online follow-up session. Croatian companies and registrations without a business VAT ID pay net + 25%; EU businesses with a valid VAT ID reverse-charge; non-EU pay net.
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Leadership course includes also an executive dinner.
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