New European Commission standard to protect SMEs from 'excessive' sustainability data requests

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New standard developed by EFRAG to guide larger companies and financial institutions on sustainability data requests to SMEs

The European Commission has introduced a new voluntary sustainability reporting standard for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) designed to make it easier for them to meet mounting data demands...

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