Failing to clean up supply chains of companies doing business in the EU allows illegal fishing, deforestation, human rights abuses and more to continue unabated (Photo: Mark Fisher)

Why the EU delay on supply chains? Corporate lobbying

EU & the World

Green Economy

Opinion

by Steve Trent and Toine Manders, London/Brussels,

EU legislation to clean up supply chains and corporate governance has been delayed after fierce industry lobbying.

This law is key to strengthening the global competitiveness of EU companies, delivering the Green Deal, tackling global climate change and biodiversity loss and protecting human rights in the EU and around the world.

Voluntary commitments have repeatedly failed, now it is time for decisive regulatory action.

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Steve Trent is CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation and Toine Manders is a Dutch MEP for the European People's Party.

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Failing to clean up supply chains of companies doing business in the EU allows illegal fishing, deforestation, human rights abuses and more to continue unabated (Photo: Mark Fisher)