October 2025 – Drawing on insights from Kinstellar’s ESG Service Line members, we present you summary of the most recent regulatory and policy updates impacting ESG across the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian region. Q3 of 2025 saw continued momentum in ESG regulation, marked by following themes.
First, progress on the transposition of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (EU) 2022/2464 (CSRD) and related due diligence legislation under the new direction of the Omnibus proposals remained uneven across the region. Several countries managed to adjust timelines and thresholds in response to the EU’s Directive (EU) 2025/794 (the Stop-the-Clock Directive).
At the same time, national authorities are moving from policy design to enforcement: Hungary’s new ESG sanctioning regime and Uzbekistan’s strengthened governance standards for public interest entities signal a more rules-based approach to compliance.
Finally, there is growing support for broader climate and social objectives, including new waste and adaptation strategies, equal pay initiatives, and the integration of ESG performance criteria into public sector operations. Meanwhile, governments have intensified their focus on the energy transition by introducing new frameworks to accelerate the deployment of renewables, expand access to sustainable finance and explore nuclear and alternative energy technologies. This marks a region-wide acceleration in clean energy policies.
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