Can I look up the answers we gave to this customer last year

Previous answer is stored per client in the chain file

Yes, you can. Every answer you have ever confirmed is recorded per question, per client, and per date. So you are not searching in an old questionnaire itself, but in the chain file: that single file of answers from which every new list is completed. There you see not only what you filled in, but also when, and whether the answer has been adjusted since then.

What is particularly useful is that for questions that rarely change: the registration number under which the enterprise is registered, the countries in which the enterprise has establishments, or the answer to the question of whether there is a liability insurance . For this type of fixed data, "the same as last year" is usually the correct answer — but the system proposes that on the basis of the file, you confirm each question again with yes or no. For topics that do change annually, such as the status of an ISO 27001 measure from Annex A or progress on the ten measures of Article 21(2) of the NIS2 Directive, the previous answer is a starting point, not an endpoint: check whether the situation is still correct before you confirm again.

The origin of each answer remains traceable

That each answer remains traceable to date and source follows from how the chain file is structured: not as a separate form per client, but as a central collection in which each piece of data is recorded once and reused from there. For data falling under the Trade Register Act 2007 — such as name, number and establishment address — that history is in practice stable. For data that follows from a framework such as the EFRAG VSME Standard or from CSRD reporting based on Directive (EU) 2022/2464, the underlying information changes more often per year, so there viewing a previous answer is particularly useful to see what exactly was reported last time.