The EU’s Draft Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: A First Assessment

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Business and Human Rights Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1017/bhj.2022.19

Christopher Patz

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Abstract

In February this year, the European Commission finally released its proposal for an EU-wide Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (‘the draft directive’).1 The draft directive, which follows the 2017 French devoir du vigilance (Duty of Vigilance) and the 2021 German Lieferkettengesetz (Supply Chain Law) as well as a 2020 European Parliament draft law on the same topic,2 is in various respects the most ambitious of its kind.3 Nonetheless, the move to legalize the concept of human rights and environmental due diligence as derived from the international standards has once again tempted European policy-makers (often in the name of ‘legal certainty’) to amend and limit aspects of the internationally agreed and -established concept, with the ultimate effect of reducing decade-long established responsibilities for companies.

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欧盟企业可持续性尽职调查指令草案：首次评估

今年2月，欧盟委员会终于发布了其关于全欧盟企业可持续性尽职调查指令的提案（“指令草案”）。1该指令草案遵循了2017年法国的《警惕义务》和2021年德国的《供应链法》，以及2020年欧洲议会关于同一主题的法律草案，2在各个方面都是同类概念中最雄心勃勃的。3尽管如此，将源自国际标准的人权和环境尽职调查概念合法化的举措再次吸引了欧洲决策者（通常以“法律确定性”的名义）修改和限制国际商定和既定概念的各个方面，最终效果是减少公司长达十年的既定责任。

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