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Article 8 is amended as follows: paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. As part of the obligation set out in paragraph 1, companies shall take appropriate measures to do the following, taking into account relevant risk factors including facts, situations or circumstances at the level of the business partner, such as whether the business partner is not a company covered by this Directive or other comparable mandatory sustainability due diligence legal acts; at the level of geography and context, such as the level of law enforcement with respect to the type of adverse impact; and at the level of sectors, of business operations, and of products and services: ; carry out a scoping exercise, based solely on reasonably available information, to identify general areas across their own operations, those of their subsidiaries and, where related to their chains of activities, those of their business partners where adverse impacts are most likely to occur and to be most severe; based on the results of the scoping exercise referred to in point (a), carry out an in-depth assessment in the areas where adverse impacts were identified to be most likely to occur and most severe.’ the following paragraph is inserted: ‘2a. Member States shall ensure that, for the purposes of the in-depth assessment referred to in paragraph 2, point (b): ; companies may request information from business partners only where that information is necessary, and, in the case of business partners with fewer than 5 000 employees, only when the information cannot reasonably be obtained by other means; where the necessary information can be obtained from different business partners, companies prioritise requesting information, where reasonable, directly from the business partner or partners where the adverse impacts are most likely to occur; where adverse impacts are identified as equally likely to occur or equally severe in several areas, companies may prioritise assessing such areas which involve direct business partners.’ paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: ‘3. Member States shall ensure that, for the purposes of identifying and assessing the adverse impacts referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article based on, where appropriate, quantitative and qualitative information, companies are entitled to make use of appropriate resources, including independent reports, digital solutions, industry and multi-stakeholder initiatives and information gathered through the notification mechanism and the complaints procedure provided for in Article 14.’ ; paragraph 4 is deleted;

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.