The EU Commission will soon present a draft law for a supply chain law that will “make it more difficult for corporations to shift social and ecological responsibility on to other companies in the supply chain,” said Veronika Bohrn Mena from the Supply Chain Law Initiative at a press conference on Thursday.
Provincial Councilor Stefan Kaineder (Greens) pointed out that in Upper Austria, the SO: FAIR project has been paying attention to socially fair procurement with tax money for many years. Caritas, for example, equips home nurses with fairly produced work clothes; the city of Traun has been paying attention to fair purchasing and green IT for a long time.
The traditional Upper Austrian company Betten Reiter with 18 branches and 130,000 pillows and duvets produced annually in Leonding has guaranteed its customers for years that the down and feathers do not come from live plucking or force-fed animals. “Products with an animal welfare seal cost a few percent more. The consumer decides,” said managing director Peter Hildebrand.
Source: Nachrichten
