Due diligence obligations: Wolters goes • Table.Briefings

Yesterday, Lara Wolters (S&D) published her report on corporate due diligence. As expected, the text is significantly stricter than the proposal presented by the Commission in February. This means Wolters is in for some difficult negotiations: Discussions in the Council are going in the opposite direction.

Lara Wolters (S&D) was already rapporteur for the parliamentary own-initiative report on the supply chain law, on which the European Parliament voted in March 2021. Wolters has already spoken out in favor of an ambitious law. It should therefore come as no surprise that her report on due diligence for companies is significantly more ambitious than the Commission’s proposal.

Due diligence obligations: Wolters goes far beyond Commission proposal

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