Sustainability Claims Risk Scan

A due-diligence check that stress-tests sustainability claims against evidence, public scrutiny and EU law.

Assess whether public sustainability claims are specific, substantiated, audience-appropriate and consistent with relevant public information. The scan applies EmpCo — Directive (EU) 2024/825, informally known as the "Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition" Directive — primarily to consumer-facing environmental claims and, on a more targeted basis, to material claims about social characteristics (e.g. wages, safety, human rights, equality, inclusion) under the amended Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD) Article 6(1)(b) "main characteristics" test. The EU Forced Labour Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/3015) is used here as a product and supply-chain exposure lens for forced-labour-related claims — it is not itself a claims-substantiation regime, creates no new stand-alone due-diligence obligation (Art. 1(3)), and its core prohibition applies from 14 December 2027.

Assess sustainability claims for wording risk, evidence gaps, regulatory sensitivity and relevant public contradictions — not a broad ESG rating.

How the assessment works

Specifically, it identifies sustainability wording that may be too broad, insufficiently evidenced, consumer-facing under the EU Empowering Consumers Directive ("EmpCo", Directive (EU) 2024/825), may create forced-labour-related assurance risk, or may be contradicted by relevant external public-source context.

  1. Claim wording: broad, generic, absolute, future-oriented, comparative or label/icon-based claims.
  2. Evidence gap: missing scope, methodology, KPIs, limits, verification, grievance/remedy, audit coverage, traceability or due-diligence evidence.
  3. External context: relevant public signals that may contradict or qualify the claim.
  4. Regulatory lens: EmpCo (Directive (EU) 2024/825, "Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition") for consumer-facing green claims and social characteristics; the EU Forced Labour Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/3015) as an additional lens for forced-labour, sourcing and traceability claims.

Website scan — public sources

Enter a company name or website (e.g. Inditex, inditex.com). The scan finds the official site and reviews its public pages — sustainability, policies, product/campaign pages, press and investor pages — plus public external signals (media, NGO, regulator, union) when configured. Only public material is checked.

Confirms the exact legal entity against the Belgian KBO/BCE public register and links the scan to its official NACE activity code — recommended when the company name is common or could be confused with an unrelated business.

Public sources only. If a bare company name cannot be confidently matched to an official domain, the scan reports how it resolved the name so you can verify it.

Internal document scan — non-public upload

Upload one non-public document — an internal policy draft, unpublished report, supplier contract or memo. Only the uploaded file is reviewed: no website crawl, no external search. Kept separate from website scan results.

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Supported: TXT, HTML, MD, CSV, DOCX and PDF. PDF scans work best with selectable text; scanned pages may not be readable. PDFs over 8 MB or 60 pages are read in your browser and only their text is sent.

Document privacy: the application processes the uploaded file for this request; the file itself is not written to persistent storage. If scan history is enabled for this deployment, this result is logged for operators who can sign in to view it: the company name you entered, a reference to the filename, your IP address, and the exact wording of any flagged claim phrase extracted from the document (not the full document). Logged entries are kept until an administrator deletes them. The file is not combined with website crawling or external search. Do not upload personal data, legally privileged information or material that your organisation does not permit you to process through this hosted service.
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