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EU mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence proposal
With mandatory human rights due diligence for businesses firmly on the political agenda in the European Union (EU), the critical question of what standards of care companies should be expected to meet, and how they should be sanctioned for failing to do so, becomes increasingly important.
Didier Reynders is rightly proud of the European Commission commitment to publishing draft legislation in 2021, noting that the scope and ambition of proposed mandatory corporate accountability will be unprecedented on a global scale. However, it will take rigorous consideration of the practicalities for companies, regulators and civil society in the EU, as well as source countries, for such a law to have real positive impacts. The ris