Commentary on EU sustainability regulation from a company perspective: due diligence, the Forced Labour Regulation, purchasing practices and responsible contracting. Written by Juho Saloranta, LL.D., whose doctoral research focused on human rights due diligence and who advises companies on putting it into practice.
A sustainability claim is now also a claim about working conditions. The EmpCo reform wrote social characteristics into consumer law, and the evidence for them is, in practice, supply chain due diligence information.
The annex says what the supplier must do Sustainability annexes have become demanding documents. They require a living wage, prohibit forced and child labour, cap working hours, grant audit rights
Over the past few years the EU has legislated in detail on how companies must address sustainability in their own operations and in their value chains. The best known instrument
What is a Supplier Code of Conduct? A Supplier Code of Conduct (SCoC) is the document in which a company sets out the social, environmental and governance conduct it expects
