EU Environmental Omnibus 2025 - What has changed?
With the EU Environmental Omnibus, published on 10 December 2025, the European Commission introduced a broad package to simplify environmental legislation while maintaining high levels of environmental protection. For companies, the Omnibus marks a shift from fragmented reporting obligations towards digital, product-centric compliance.
Below you find an overview of the measures most relevant for iPOINT customers:
Repeal of the SCIP database – substance transparency remains
The obligation to submit data to the SCIP database for articles containing SVHCs will be repealed. The Commission cites high administrative costs and limited practical benefits.
The repeal of the SCIP database and the related simplification measures are implemented through COM(2025) 986, which amends the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC). While the SCIP obligation is removed, the Directive continues to provide the legal backbone for substance information, circular economy requirements and Extended Producer Responsibility.
However, key obligations remain:
- REACH Article 33 communication duties
- Supply chain transparency on SVHCs
SVHC information will instead be addressed through:
- the Digital Product Passport
- the One Substance, One Assessment approach
Impact on companies:
➥ Fewer notifications, but continued need for structured and reliable substance data.
Digital Product Passport becomes a central compliance tool
The EU Environmental Omnibus clearly strengthens the role of the Digital Product Passport (DPP) as a key vehicle for:
- substance information
- circular economy data
- market surveillance
Impact on companies:
➥ Companies must prepare product data in a way that enables multiple regulatory uses from a single data source.
Simplification of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
EU-based producers selling products in other Member States will no longer be required to appoint an authorised representative until January 2035. The simplification of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is implemented through COM(2025) 983 and COM(2025) 982, which suspend the obligation for EU-based producers to appoint authorised representatives across multiple product categories until 2035.
Affected areas include:
- packaging
- batteries
- electrical and electronic equipment
- single-use plastics
Impact on companies:
➥ EPR obligations remain, but administrative complexity is reduced – increasing the importance of centralised EPR data management.
Amendments to the EU Battery Regulation
Within the EU Environmental Omnibus, the Battery Regulation is adjusted to better align regulatory requirements with digital and product-based compliance approaches. The amendments to the EU Battery Regulation are set out in COM(2025) 981, which clarifies substance definitions, reduces reporting complexity and strengthens alignment with the Digital Battery Passport.
Key changes include:
- clarified SVHC definitions
- reduced reporting complexity
- alignment with the Digital Battery Passport
- simplified EPR representation rules
Impact on companies:
➥ Battery-related data requirements remain stringent, but more digitally integrated.
Simplified environmental and sustainability reporting
While the EU Environmental Omnibus primarily targets administrative simplification under environmental legislation, it also has indirect implications for sustainability reporting and data management.
The Environmental Omnibus itself does not amend CSRD or ESRS requirements. As outlined in COM(2025) 980, the proposed simplification primarily affects environmental legislation and administrative reporting. Recent CSRD simplifying adjustments related to CSRD Scope 3 reporting have been agreed outside the Environmental Omnibus package and remain legally separate from it.
The Omnibus introduces:
- simplified environmental management systems
- reduced reporting for certain sectors
- faster permitting for strategic projects
Impact on companies:
➥ High-quality, consistent sustainability data remains essential.
EU Environmental Omnibus & IPOINT
The EU Environmental Omnibus clearly signals a shift in regulatory approach: compliance is no longer driven by a growing number of isolated reporting obligations, but by reliable, integrated and digitally available product data. While administrative procedures are simplified, the underlying requirements for substance transparency and value chain accountability remain fully in place.
For companies, this means that Product Compliance does not become less important – it becomes more central. Fewer formal reports increase the importance of having the right data available at the right time, across multiple regulatory frameworks.
IPOINT supports companies exactly at this point. With integrated solutions for REACH and SVHC compliance management, EU Battery Regulation, Digital Product Passports and Extended Producer Responsibility, IPOINT enables a consistent data backbone that can be reused across regulations, customer requirements and sustainability reporting. This allows companies to maintain regulatory control, even as the legal framework becomes more streamlined.
