European Union · Directive (EU) 2024/1760
CSDDD software for human rights due diligence
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive asks companies to find human rights risk in their chain of activities, act on it, give affected people a way to raise concerns, and be able to show what was done. Libera supports that workflow end to end — it does not guarantee compliance with the directive.
What the directive is about
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EU) 2024/1760 requires in-scope companies to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for adverse human rights and environmental impacts in their own operations and their chains of activities. Forced labour and human trafficking sit squarely inside the human rights part of that duty.
- Risk-based, ongoing due diligence rather than a one-off audit
- Covers the company's own operations and its chain of activities
- Expects a complaints or notification mechanism for affected people
- Expects companies to act on what they find and record it
Scope and timing, without the false precision
Scope thresholds and application dates are set in the directive and in each member state's transposing law, and they have been amended since adoption. Check the current consolidated text and your own national implementation with counsel rather than a vendor page. What does not change is the shape of the obligation: know your risks, act on them, and be able to show your work.
Risk-based prioritisation is the hard part
Few companies can treat every supplier equally. The directive expects prioritisation by severity and likelihood, which means you need a defensible reason for why one supplier was reviewed first. Libera scores each supplier on country prevalence, government response, sector intensity, workforce size and the use of recruitment intermediaries, and names every factor behind the number.
- Walk Free Global Slavery Index 2023 country prevalence (static 2023 edition)
- US DOL TVPRA sector listings per country
- Live screening against OFAC sanctions and the DHS UFLPA Entity List at check time
- A published weighting, so the prioritisation can be explained to a regulator or auditor
A notification mechanism people can reach
A grievance channel only means something if the people closest to the risk can use it. Libera gives each site a confidential reporting page reachable by QR poster, with no name, phone number, account or precise location collected, in the worker's own language. Access to that channel can be verified through announced or unannounced checks by the buyer or an independent auditor, and the result is recorded per site.
- Multiple agreed access points per site rather than a single poster
- Verified / due for verification / unverified / access issue status per location
- Zero reports plus unverified access is never treated as reassurance
Accounting for what you did
Documentation is where most programmes fail under scrutiny, because the evidence is spread across inboxes and spreadsheets. Libera keeps the screening history, the aggregated signal record, the case timeline, the remediation actions with owners and dates, and an immutable activity log, and exports them as one report.
Where Libera stops
Libera surfaces indicators and structures the human response. It does not decide whether an impact occurred, does not produce a legal opinion on your scope or obligations, and does not certify a supplier. Those judgements stay with your compliance team, your counsel and, where relevant, the competent authority.
How Libera maps to the workflow
From a screening score to a documented human decision.
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Screen suppliers
Every supplier, site and labour provider is scored on country prevalence, government response, sector intensity, workforce size and use of recruitment intermediaries, then checked against official sanctions and import-ban lists at the time of the check.
02
Open and verify worker access
A QR poster at agreed access points opens a confidential reporting page in the worker's own language. Access can be verified through announced or unannounced checks by the buyer or an independent auditor, and the result is recorded per site.
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Receive confidential signals
Workers report without a name, phone number, account or precise location. Management never reads an individual account; only aggregate indicator counts reach the console.
04
Detect patterns
Signals are clustered by site, supplier and ILO indicator, so a repeated pattern becomes visible even when each report on its own looks minor.
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Human review
When signals accumulate, the supplier's risk status is raised and flagged for human review. Libera never concludes that forced labour occurred — a person decides what happens next.
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Case and remediation
A case file records the investigation timeline, evidence register, remediation actions with owners and due dates, and the documented outcome.
07
Monitor and document
Re-screening, access re-verification and an immutable activity log produce an exportable record of what was found, what was decided and what was done.
What this page is not
This page is a plain-language summary of a directive that is transposed differently in each member state and has been amended since adoption. It is not legal advice, and it deliberately avoids stating scope thresholds or application dates, because those depend on the current consolidated text and your national implementation. Libera supports due-diligence documentation; it does not determine compliance.
Libera produces risk indicators for review. It does not determine that any company or person has committed an offence, does not guarantee compliance with any law, and is not legal advice. Every escalation requires human review.
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