Our customer sends a questionnaire in English or German, does that work

An English or German list is not a problem; recognition is based on the question, not the language

Yes, that works. The system recognizes questions by their structure and by what exactly is being asked, not by the language in which it is asked. "What is the registered address of your company" and "Wat is het vestigingsadres van de onderneming" lead to the same answer in the supply chain file, namely the establishment address of the company". The same applies to a German question about "Mitarbeiterzahl" or an English one about "number of employees": both point to the number of employees which is already established.

What does matter is the precision of the question itself, and that does not change with the language. An English NIS2 questionnaire referring to "the ten measures under Article 21" asks literally for the same ten measures as a Dutch list that cites Article 21(2). A German question about "Informationssicherheits-Managementsystem" and an English one about "ISMS" both refer to the same Annex A measures from ISO/IEC 27001. The system proposes for each question which answer fits, and the customer confirms this with yes or no — with a translated question, that check is just as important, because a literal translation sometimes asks for a slightly different detail than the Dutch version on which the file was built.

Recognition is language-independent; the source data is not

The underlying sources are themselves also international: the VSME Basic Module of EFRAG and the CSRD Directive 2022/2464 are European texts that circulate in each Member State in its own language, and NIS2 (Directive 2022/2555) contains the same ten measures of Article 21(2) in every language version. Because the supply chain file is built on question content and not on a fixed text in one language, only the packaging shifts — not the answer. If a question remains unclear, for example because an English formulation is broader than the Dutch equivalent, the same rule applies as with a Dutch list: do not propose an answer without supporting source material, and the customer decides for themselves with yes or no.