Sustainability in EU law
The sustainability rules connect in three steps: the taxonomy defines what counts, reporting requires it to be disclosed, and due diligence requires something to be done about what is disclosed. This page takes the steps one at a time.
NovaCopilot · ExploreWorld Legal
European and Nordic law as verifiable data, with source, reading date and checksum on every row.
- Publisher
- NovaCopilot, ExploreWorld Legal
- Corpus version
- legal-2026-10-04
- Read at
- 2026-08-31
- Freshness
- 83/100
Reporting
- The duty follows size and listing status, phased in over several years.
- Disclosure must cover both how the business affects the world and how the world affects the business.
- The figures are assured; they are no longer a free narrative in the management report.
The taxonomy
- An activity counts as sustainable when it contributes substantially to one objective without harming the others.
- Minimum safeguards apply even where the technical criteria are met.
- The share of taxonomy-aligned turnover, capital expenditure and operating expenditure is disclosed.
Due diligence
- The duty covers own operations, subsidiaries and parts of the chain of activities.
- Risks must be identified, prevented and followed up, not merely described.
- The climate transition plan is part of the requirement, not a voluntary annex.
The NovaCopilot models
The decision model
In: A role, a legal act and the situation in plain words.
Out: The obligations that reach the role, the article behind them and what remains.
When: When the question is whether a requirement applies to you, and why.
The difference model
In: A checksum already used and the date of the last reading.
Out: What changed since then: checksum, reading date, passed deadline and rows to revisit.
When: When earlier work is reused and has to be checked first.
The obligation model
In: A legal act or an article, with or without a role filter.
Out: The obligation in the register's wording, the role it reaches, canonical address and reading date.
When: When the answer has to be citable article by article.
Example for an agent
curl -s "https://legal.exploreworldai.com/novacopilot/eu-hallbarhet?format=agent"- canonical, the address to cite
- node_hash, the checksum for the next comparison
- corpus_version, the corpus version that answered
- freshness.read_at, the reading date of the row
- freshness.next_check, when a new check is reasonable
- citation.string, the finished citation
- agent.receipt, the receipt of the call, without a key
Metadata
- Canonical address
- https://legal.exploreworldai.com/novacopilot/eu-hallbarhet
- Layer
- index
- Read at
- 2026-08-31
- Freshness
- 83/100
- Checksum
- c9116d37bd41efe9
- Corpus version
- legal-2026-10-04
- Next check
- -
- License
- https://legal.exploreworldai.com/revision
How to cite this page
NovaCopilot (ExploreWorld Legal, Valkiv Ventures AB), https://legal.exploreworldai.com/novacopilot/eu-hallbarhet, read 2026-08-31, checksum c9116d37bd41efe9, corpus version legal-2026-10-04, license https://legal.exploreworldai.com/revision
- Owner
- Valkiv Ventures AB
- License
- https://legal.exploreworldai.com/revision
- Checksum
- c9116d37bd41efe9
- Fingerprint
- ewai:eu:054cbd
- Terms
- Use, cite, index and cache. The register as such is not resold.
Source registers
The same material as registers, with read date and source on every row.
FAQ
- Do the rules reach companies outside the EU?
- They can, depending on turnover inside the union and group structure. The register points at the article that sets the scope.
- Are the articles available as open data?
- Yes. Act, article number, heading, address, reading date and hash sit free in the EU data catalogue.
- How do I know the data is current?
- Every row carries a reading date and a freshness index. The EU layer was last re-read on 2026-08-31.
Next step
Three ways to put the register to work in your own practice.
Start with your task
Litigation
Find support in a judgment
Search guiding decisions, see what became final and follow changes in the law.
In-house, deals
Map the rules in a transaction
Move from theme to act and on to the article that carries the duty.
Compliance
Assess the risk in a process
Risk scoring per legal area, with the sources behind every score.