Archive

• EFRAG SRB approves voluntary ESRS for SMEs

  30 November 2023

  Minor tweaks made ahead of four-month consultations on draft VSME standard

• EU balancing reporting reductions with green ambitions

  30 October 2023

  Concerns persist over costs and burdens of reporting for SMEs but civil society and trade unions warn of a lowering in ambition on the European Green Deal

• ESRS for SMEs: The key to Europe's new policy goals?

  14 September 2023

  With the Commission trimming down reporting requirements and SMEs calling for clarity, EFRAG is tasked with releasing its simplified reporting standards by the end of October

• EFRAG SRB votes on final ESRS drafts

  15 November 2022

  'With reference to Appendix B of IFRS S2'

• Higher costs in the short-term than benefits in implementing ESRS

  11 November 2022

  SMEs concerned the cost of requirements trickling down to them is undervalued

• It is inevitable that the sustainability reporting burden will be passed on to SMEs

  26 October 2022

  But can we do it in a smart way? Large companies have asked during a panel moderated by Corporate Disclosures

• SMEs and their advisors are in no way placed to deliver on the CSRD/ESRS

  26 July 2022

  Salvador Marin and Paul Thompson, respectively president and director at EFAA for SMEs, as well as Luc Hendrickx, director at SMEunited, discuss the challenges SMEs face in complying with CSRD and ESRS

• 'Learn from financial reporting mistakes,' SMEs tell Commission and EFRAG

  20 July 2022

  Asking for a sustainability reporting framework fit for their businesses