Published: March 9th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

The Parliament is still negotiating, but the Council was already able to agree on a common approach to the Due Diligence Act in December. Under pressure from France, it decided on a special role for the financial sector. The text on which the EU27 agreed at the end is as opaque as it always is when a compromise could only be pushed through by the skin of its teeth.