Focus group: ESRS Implementation – How to Report Correctly When Nobody Knows What is Correct?
Through the ESRS standards, the CSRD provides rules for achieving high transparency, comparability, and quality of published sustainability information. However, this complex obligation represents not only administrative and financial burdens but also knowledge and organizational ones for Czech companies. The qualitative research “Implementation of European Sustainability Reporting Standards in the Czech Republic”, led by mutualus and implemented under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, and the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic, seeks to clarify these challenges and offer an objective perspective. In the context of current discussions on the final form of the Omnibus simplification package, understanding and specifying the burden on Czech companies is all the more important.
The focus group will provide:
- preliminary results of the unique research followed by a moderated open discussion
- an overview of the specific problems that companies encounter when implementing the ESRS
- the chance to verify your own strategy for ESRS reporting and the uncertainties related to the Omnibus and gain practical inspiration for the next steps
- an opportunity to establish contact with people who are solving similar problems and to share experiences in the field of disclosure according to ESRS
- insight into legal uncertainty, risky accumulation of obligations, corporate culture, interpretation of ESRS, and overreporting
We recommend the focus group especially to potential respondents, i.e., those responsible for corporate sustainability in individual companies. However, we also welcome the involvement of advisors and regulators who can bring a different perspective to the discussion.
Organizational details:
- Two slots are planned: 15:30–16:30 and 16:40–17:40
- Each focus group will have a maximum attendance of 15 people.
- Prior registration is required to participate in the focus group.
- Those interested in taking part can contact the organizers of the focus group directly by e-mail: welcome@mutualus.eu.