A few more years and consumers in the EU should be able to be safe. Certain that the cocoa in the chocolate was processed under humane conditions, that children did not harvest the rubber for their car tires and that the dye for the new winter jacket did not poison anyone. This is the aim of a new EU directive Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, or CSDDD for short, the EU supply chain law, which will gradually apply in all member states in a few years. In mid-December, the EU states and the European Parliament agreed on a draft of the regulations. It initially affects all companies with more than 500 employees and an annual turnover of 150 million euros. So quite a few.
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