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As discussed in September's edition, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) drafted revisions to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) to help clarify and simplify the Standards and their disclosure requirements. EFRAG recently delivered their Technical Advice on these revisions to the European Commission (EC). 

The EC is anticipated to adopt the finalized, simplified ESRS as a Delegated Act in early 2026, at which point the new version of the Standards becomes legally binding for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) reporting. 

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What's next

Looking ahead to 2026 and the impact of the aforementioned simplified ESRS, you'll be able to start to prepare to adopt the simplified Standards before they become law.

If you include the ESRS in Sustainability Explorer, you'll be able to view EFRAG's draft simplified Standards — as recently delivered to the EC — in the new year. With this content, you'll be able to review the revised disclosure requirements to help determine how they impact your reporting and data collection needs. To help ease data collection, you'll also be able to align these simplified Standards and requirements with metrics in Sustainability Program.

To further help ease adoption, you'll also be able to use a new ESRS Transition Accelerator to automatically compare the current Standards to the draft simplified ESRS and highlight potential impacts to Program metrics aligned with their disclosure requirements. 

With the ESRS Transition Accelerator, you'll be able to:

• Review all amendments proposed by EFRAG.
• Focus on your company's material disclosures and the impact on your data collection needs.
• Decide how to adjust Sustainability Program based on the simplification, and generate import templates to create or update metrics in bulk to make these adjustments.

You can learn more about these upcoming enhancements in the Workiva Community.

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On the calendar

December 16, join a live briefing with Workiva's regulatory and sustainability experts, where you can learn:

• Revisions within EFRAG's draft simplified ESRS, and how to assess the amendments' impact
• How financial, sustainability, and audit & risk teams should adopt the revised Standards without overhauling their current approach
• Best practices and pitfalls to avoid based on lessons from Wave 1 CSRD reporting

Register now to attend or receive a recording of the webinar!

Share your thoughts

The Workiva Community provides ample opportunity to engage with and learn from subject-matter experts, advisory partners, and other sustainability reporters. Join the conversation in these discussion threads:

• Community Connect: Sustainability, to learn from industry professionals and peers as you collaborate and share insights, challenges, and solutions.
• Sustainability Management, to discuss best practices and experiences with sustainability reporting, in general and within the Workiva Platform
• What's new in Sustainability, to learn the latest enhancements of Sustainability Reporting features like Sustainability Program and Sustainability Explorer
• Sustainability Feedback, to share and support ideas on how to improve Sustainability Management features

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