European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)

The European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) have been translated into several languages to support the sustainability reporting reform agenda in EU accession countries. The translation is provided for informational purposes only and does not carry legal authority. The translation was performed by the World Bank’s Center for Financial and Sustainability Reporting Reform (CFRR) under its regional program, Enhancing Accounting, Auditing, and Sustainability Reporting Program (EAASURE).

Effective audit oversight helps improve the quality of financial information, which is crucial to good governance and economic growth. 

This paper aims to assist European Union (EU) candidate and potential candidate countries, particularly in the Western Balkans, to establish effective oversight of corporate audit. It:

This Guidance on Good Practices in Public Sector Financial Reporting and Fiscal Transparency is a knowledge paper of the World Bank Institutions Department developed under the PULSAR Program.

EFRAG released EFRAG IG 3: List of ESRS datapoints as part of its implementation supporting activities, which consist of issuing non-authoritative implementation guidance and other material to support the application of sector-agnostic ESRS ‘Set 1’ adopted by the European Commission via a delegated act on 31 July 2023 and published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 22 December 2023 (‘ESRS’).