Brussels plans sweeping cuts to EU’s green rules, leaked bill reveals
Many businesses would be exempt from complying with sustainability reporting under the hotly anticipated omnibus proposal.
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Macron’s U-turn against EU green rules triggers internal revolt
The French president’s anti-regulation push has thrown his environmental legacy into doubt and angered many in his own party.
Von der Leyen builds bonfire of EU’s environmental red tape
Brussels hopes simplifying green compliance rules will boost Europe’s flagging economy. Green groups fear something more sinister.
Qatar warns it will halt gas supplies to Europe if fined under EU due diligence law
“I’m not bluffing” in LNG threat, Qatari Energy Minister Saad Sherida al-Kaabi tells the FT.
Qatar will ‘stop’ EU gas sales if fined under due diligence law
Energy minister warns Doha ‘not bluffing’ over hefty penalties in corporate sustainability directive
German plans to downsize national supply chain rules at odds with EU law, experts warn
Germany’s plans to reduce the scope of its national supply chain due diligence law, in line with the EU directive that will enter into force later this month, could collide with EU law, legal experts told Euractiv.
Governments support stripped-down corporate due diligence law
After weeks of uncertainty, new EU rules on sustainable supply chains seem likely to pass into law.
Final push for the EU’s corporate due diligence law with compromises
On this episode of our daily podcast Today in the EU, we’re diving into the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Law, which is getting its final push on Friday 15th of March.
Revised due diligence law adds farmers’ protection in food chain
In a fresh nod to EU farmers who have been protesting across the bloc for weeks, the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council included a political message in support of farmers in its draft compromise on the controversial EU corporate due diligence law, se…
Political volte-face hits EU supply chain law amid unwavering Belgian ambition
Belgian officials started to test the water for a speedy legislative solution to save the draft EU corporate due diligence law by mid-March, Euractiv understands, after numerous member-state defections forced them to abort a closely-watched vote betwee…
Food corporations call for EU corporate due diligence law to be finalised
While the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is currently being blocked by Germany and Italy, high-profile food corporations are calling for its swift adoption to allow for “coherent and harmonised legislation” at EU level.
German liberals want to renegotiate EU due diligence law, blame Spain
Germany’s liberal FDP party wants to reopen negotiations on the EU’s Due Diligence Directive after the issue was removed from the agenda of a meeting of EU ambassadors last Friday, which the party says shows the poor quality of the preliminary agreemen…
German-Italian revolt delays EU’s due diligence law
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) has been taken off the agenda of today’s meeting of EU ambassadors, as it was not expected to reach a majority among EU countries. So far, no new date for the vote has been set.
Germany’s Lindner wants to topple EU corporate due diligence law
German liberals have confirmed the abstention of the German government on the EU’s proposal for a corporate due diligence law that would see companies becoming liable for human right breaches in their supply chains.
German support for EU corporate due diligence law in doubt
Germany’s support for a law requiring firms in the European Union to take action if they find their supply chains in violation of human rights was thrown into doubt after one of its ruling parties sided with business groups opposing the proposal.
German industry fumes over new EU corporate rules
The German industry blasted the agreement on the EU’s new due diligence law and warned that the new corporate rules would undermine Europe’s competitiveness and stifle its economy.
EU Parliament and member states reach deal on corporate due diligence law
Negotiators of the European Council and Parliament agreed on Thursday (14 December) after an all-night discussion a compromise deal on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), including on the most controversial aspects of the incl…
Better prices are not enough: good procurement practices are essential to ending povertyand deforestation in cocoa value chains, reveals new paper [Promoted content]
Poverty and inequality are at the root of many of the human rights and the environmental issues in the global cocoa value chain. At the producer level poverty leaves those at the beginning of this chain with few choices. It forces them to rely on their…
Spanish Presidency mulls excluding finance from due diligence rules
The Spanish Presidency of the EU Council is leaning towards the exclusion of the financial sector from the EU corporate accountability rules, which are currently under inter-institutional negotiations, according to an internal document seen by Euractiv.
Incarcerated for his advocacy, this activist puts his hopes on EU’s due diligence law
As representatives of the European Parliament and EU countries negotiate the details of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) in Brussels, visiting Guatemalan human rights activist Bernardo Caal Xol has urged them to implement th…
Crunchtime for the due diligence law
As the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is being discussed between member state governments and the European Parliament, it looks like one of the most significant pieces of corporate legislation in a long time is on the line.