Controversial EU law
Lang: not watered down the supply chain law
The EU Lief chain law should be reformed – even before the first rules are used. It is unclear how the federal government behaves.
The Green politician Ricarda Lang puts pressure on the SPD in the coalition being on the European Supplier Act. “Friedrich Merz must not break the European supply chain law-and the SPD shouldn’t watch how it does,” she told the German Press Agency. Consumers in Europe should be able to rely on the fact that T-shirts are not sewn by children and cell phones were not produced in forced labor.
The European supply chain law was decided last year. The aim is to strengthen human rights worldwide. Large companies should be able to be held accountable if they benefit from human rights violations such as child or forced labor. According to criticism, parts of the directive should be simplified.
Law in Brussels on the agenda
On Monday, representatives of the EU countries in Brussels want to talk about the project. According to a current proposal, you could agree, among other things, that significantly fewer companies should be affected by the rules in the future. Lang demands: “Under no circumstances should the federal government support the proposed dilution of the European supply chain law.”
Within the federal government, there was already disagreement about how the EU law should be dealt with. While Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) had asked to completely abolish the directive, the SPD points out that the coalition agreement states that the EU Lief Chain Act was to be implemented. Even if there is an agreement among the EU countries, the European Parliament must also agree to changes to the project.
dpa
Source: Stern
