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EU Reaches Provisional Agreement on Forced Labour Regulation

Posted on March 25, 2024
Posted in Environmental, Social, and Governance, European Environmental and Public Law
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The proposed regulation would ban forced labour-made products from the EU market, affecting companies’ supply chains and requiring compliance checks.

 By Paul A. Davies, Michael D. Green, and James Bee

On 5 March 2024, the European Parliament and European Council announced that they had reached a provisional political agreement on the regulation (Regulation) that aims to prohibit any product manufactured using forced labour from being placed on or exported from the EU market.

The European Commission proposed…

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