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The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive - Obligations for Companies

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On 5 July 2024, the final text of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) was entered into the Official Journal of the EU. The CSDDD will enter force on 25 July 2024. This marks the final key step in the...more

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EU Adopts Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

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The CSDDD is set to impose mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence obligations for in-scope companies. On 5 July 2024, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) was published in the...more

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EFRAG Publishes First Implementation Guidance Documents for CSRD Reporting

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This guidance aims to support the preparation and analysis of reports using the European Sustainability Reporting Standards. On 31 May 2024, EFRAG published the first three Implementation Guidance (IG) documents relating...more

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EU Parliament Approves Supply Chain Sustainability Rules

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On 24 March 2024, the European Parliament approved the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) with a vote of 374 in favour (compared with 235 votes against and 19 abstentions)....more

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Germany: Update on the European Supply Chain Directive

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On March 15, 2024, the EU member states voted in favor of the European Supply Chain Directive (Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive – CSDDD) in the EU Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) after a long...more

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EU Member States Reach Agreement on Corporate Due Diligence Directive

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Following extended negotiations, the directive was endorsed with a significantly narrower scope that would reduce the number of companies affected. On 15 March 2024, EU Member States endorsed the Belgian Presidency’s...more

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EU takes important step on supply chain due diligence

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The European Commission and European Parliament recently reached agreement on the details of a new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The Directive will require large organisations to implement due diligence...more

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The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is (Almost) Here. Is Your Company Ready?

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On January 1, 2024, the long-awaited EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”) begins to take effect. The CSRD is intended to redefine corporate social responsibility expectations for both in-scope companies...more

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Repairing the supply chain – the proposed EU Directive on a right to repair

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The EU Commission is currently proposing a wide range of measures to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal to become climate neutral by 2050. At the same time it has a clear tendency to strengthen consumer rights. In...more

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Sustainable Products Regulations: Repairing the supply chain – the proposed EU Directive on a right to repair

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The EU Commission is currently proposing a wide range of measures to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal to become climate neutral by 2050 and to strengthen consumer rights simultaneously. In this context it has now...more

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European Commission Adopts Proposal to Promote Repair of Goods

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As part of the European Green Deal ambitions, the proposal encourages sustainable consumption through additional incentives to repair products to reduce waste and emissions. On 22 March 2023, the European Commission...more

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Business and Human Rights Considerations on the Rise in 2023

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Business and human rights expectations and obligations, based at their core on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), are now increasingly being integrated into non-binding local business expectations...more

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Recent Human Rights Due Diligence Law Developments in the European Union, Switzerland, and Japan

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National and supranational legislatures continue to develop laws requiring employers to conduct due diligence of their operations and those of their business partners in order to address human rights risks such as forced...more

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European Commission issues major proposal on due diligence obligations to protect human rights and the environment across supply...

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On 23 February 2022, the European Commission ("Commission") issued its long-awaited Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence to tackle human rights and environmental impacts across global value...more

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Bundesregierung einigt sich auf Gesetz zu menschenrechtlichen Sorgfaltspflichten von Unternehmen

Das Bundeskabinett hat am 3. März 2021 den Entwurf eines Gesetzes über unternehmerische Sorgfaltspflichten in Lieferketten („Sorgfaltspflichtengesetz“ oder „Lieferkettengesetz“) beschlossen („Regierungsentwurf“). Der...more

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The European Commission proposes a new Pharmaceutical Strategy for the EU

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On 25 November 2020, the European Commission published a proposal for a new Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe (“the Strategy”). The Strategy is built around four main objectives, each with an assigned work strand....more

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European Commission publishes factsheet on the (in vitro) medical devices procurement ecosystem

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The European Commission has published a factsheet addressed to organisers of public tenders involving medical devices. The goal of the factsheet is to provide hospitals, clinics, ministries and competent authorities...more

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