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Suppliers and the products upstream
CSR · Climate & carbon
Milk drives more than four fifths of a cheese's emissions, and how much milk a cheese needs depends on its family. What that means for makers, mongers and buyers.
CSR · Climate & carbon
Aerospace suppliers are asked for carbon data by primes who are themselves being asked. How to answer and ask with one data set, and what defense confidentiality permits.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
PFAS-free water repellency works; oil repellency does not yet. What the October 2026 PFHxA restriction changes for technical textiles and workwear.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
REACH obliges you to know, and to declare, what is inside the components you buy. What auditors ask for first, and how to have it ready before the 45-day clock starts.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
The PPWR requires 40% reusable transport packaging by 2030, and 100% between your EU sites. What Article 29 demands, and how you will have to prove it.
CSR · Climate & carbon
Ingredients and packaging dominate a cosmetics footprint, and buyers increasingly ask at product level. When a company footprint is enough, and when you need an LCA.
CSR · Climate & carbon
A retailer's emissions sit almost entirely in goods bought for resale and in moving them. How to segment thousands of product lines without stalling on data.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
The REACH Candidate List stands at 253 substances since February 2026. Screen each update against your parts, not your calendar.
CSR · Climate & carbon
Concrete and steel outweigh everything a site burns. How to model per project, where material data already exists, and why the real lever sits before the purchase order.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
The PPWR caps empty space in e-commerce parcels at 50%, and filler counts as void. Who is covered, how the ratio is measured, and what to redesign first.
CSR · Climate & carbon
Purchased components are the largest line in an electronics footprint, and the data belongs to suppliers who mostly don't have it. How to run the request as a campaign.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
From December 30, 2026, the EUDR requires deforestation-free, geolocated wood. Covered codes, composite products: what changes after the EUTR.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
A product is in EUDR scope only if its customs code appears in Annex I. Palm-oil margarine is out, a chocolate bar is in. Here is how to run the check.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
A PFAS supplier inquiry scoped by component family, with the OECD definition and thresholds attached, gets answers a generic questionnaire never will.
CSR · Climate & carbon
The physical method is more accurate, the monetary method is available. Solid footprints use both, deliberately. How to decide, emission source by emission source.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
Import a substance from outside the EU and above one tonne a year you are the REACH registrant, unless a valid only representative covers you.
CSR · Climate & carbon
Collection is the longest phase of a carbon footprint. Which department holds which data, the document to ask for, and the one topic that deserves a questionnaire.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
From 2030, packaging needs at least a C recyclability grade to stay on the EU market. Multi-material cosmetics formats are the most exposed.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
Register, file, pass the reference number down the chain, and correct a filed statement: the full path of an EUDR due diligence statement in TRACES.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
Any article with a Candidate List substance above 0.1% must be notified to SCIP before it goes on the EU market. The threshold is assessed part by part.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
As of April 3, 2026, RAC backs a broad PFAS ban and SEAC is consulting on derogations until May 25. Enough is settled to start your inventory now.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
The EU packaging regulation applies from August 12, 2026. What it borrows from France's AGEC law, what it overrides, and what stays national.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
EUDR requires geolocation for every production plot. Point or polygon, the 4-hectare rule, cooperatives, and how to verify coordinates before you file them.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
REACH Article 33 requires the name of a substance above 0.1%, not a full material breakdown. How to answer in 45 days without a dedicated program.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
Regulation (EU) 2025/40 applies from August 12, 2026, and stacks most of its requirements on January 1, 2030. The timeline, and who carries each duty.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
You are still in REACH without a factory: distributor, importer, or downstream user. The Candidate List holds 253 substances.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
Under the EUDR, whoever first places a product on the EU market carries the due diligence duty. How to work out your role, legal entity by legal entity.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
Since January 1, 2026, French law 2025-188 bans cosmetics, ski wax, and most clothing containing PFAS. The thresholds, the exemptions, and what comes next.
Supply Chain · Product & supply chain regulations
As of January 30, 2026, the EUDR applies from December 30, 2026 for large and midsize companies, and from June 30, 2027 for micro and small ones.
