Which sustainability rules apply to you?

Reporting, carbon border, packaging, deforestation and supply chain rules are arriving on different dates with different thresholds, and several changed in 2026. Answer fifteen questions about your business and see which apply, when, and the first step for each.

Your business

Use group figures for the last financial year. The example answers are illustrative.

Where is the business based?

Listed on a UK stock exchange?

Employees (people)

Turnover (£m)

Balance sheet total (£m)

Total assets.

Selling into the EU

Do you sell physical goods into the EU?

Turnover in the EU (€m a year)

If you are EU-based, enter your total turnover.

Turnover of your largest EU subsidiary or branch (€m)

What you import, make and pack

Iron, steel, aluminium, cement, fertiliser or hydrogen imported into the UK (£ a year)

Including products made of them, such as steel fixings or aluminium frames, if they fall under these customs headings.

The same goods imported into the EU by you, as importer (tonnes a year)

Packaging you supply in the UK (tonnes a year)

Packaging on the goods you sell, including transit packaging.

Plastic packaging you make or import (tonnes a year)

Do you place cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soya or wood products on the EU market?

Including products made from them, such as leather, chocolate, furniture and paper.

Do you sell EV, e-bike or industrial batteries (over 2 kWh) in the EU?

Do you sell textiles, footwear, furniture or iron and steel products in the EU?

These are expected to be among the first products to need digital product passports.

This is a first screen against published thresholds, not legal advice. Nothing you type is sent anywhere unless you choose to send it with the form.

Your results

Enter at least your employees or turnover to see which rules apply.

Rules that apply now or soon

Others

How it works

The sums, in plain sight.

Each rule is tested against its published thresholds as they stood on 29 October 2026, including the EU Omnibus changes to CSRD and CSDDD in force from 18 March 2026, the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards announced in September 2026 and the UK CBAM starting on 1 January 2027.

Applies means you pass the main threshold. Check means you are close to a threshold or one of its tests needs more detail. Indirect means the rule falls on your customers, who will ask you for data. Coming means the detailed rules for your products are not yet set.

Most thresholds have detailed tests on groups, years and definitions that a short screen cannot cover. Treat this as a list of what to confirm, not a legal opinion.

Sources

Read: CSRD, UK SRS and CBAM, what applies to you

Know which rules matter, and when.

Waterfront Advisory turns new rules into a practical plan, starting with the data you already have.

Start a conversation Other free tools