In 2013, the Rana Plaza textile factory collapsed in Dhaka, burying 1000 workers in the debris. The tragedy was the impetus for the National Assembly in France to devise and win the world’s first supply chain law. In an interview with Charlotte Wirth, the socialist Dominique Potier, who played a key role in drafting the law, explains that the French original is ingeniously simple, that lobbying battles over the EU version are currently being fought in Brussels and why the German legislator’s regulatory frenzy has produced a bad law.