EU law now sets a ceiling on what a large customer can demand from a smaller supplier. Most UK suppliers answering these forms have never been told. The Value Chain Cap Checker shows you where the line falls.
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Open the guideFour of these eight requests fall outside the cap. Illustrative example — your own position depends on the five questions in the guide.
Written for the person who actually has to fill the form in — usually someone in finance or operations who did not ask for the job.
Omnibus I, the delegated act adopted on 3 July 2026, and the dates that matter to you.
The two-part test that decides if the cap applies to a request you have been sent.
Six requests that commonly go beyond the standard — and what stays fair game.
The honest limits. Assuming protection you do not have is worse than having none.
Capline is run by an experienced finance professional whose career has covered financial and sustainability reporting and data analysis across small firms and large multinationals.
That range is the whole point. These questionnaires are written at the large end, by people with reporting teams and systems behind them. They land at the small end, where the same information sits across six systems and two filing cabinets, and the person who has to find it already has a full-time job.
So every claim in the guide is traced to the directive, the delegated act or EFRAG's own template, and cited so you can check it rather than take our word for it. That is also how we work: every figure carries a source document, a named owner and the date it was verified.
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