Vídeo: UE vai adotar nova legislação sobre o dever de diligência das empresas

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For if the original commission Proposal with the original thresholds would have applied to about 1% of EU companies in the single Market we now estimate that the current version adopted by Council will only apply to 0.05% of companies EU companies active in the single Market we are not able to

Give an estimation for non-eu companies that can also fall into scope at certain conditions uh so it’s just it’s not even you can’t even speak of a minority of companies covered it’s a drop in the water uh and it will clearly only apply to very large very rich companies which

Is something that we forcefully denounce we denounce the fact that member states have tried all of the dirty games in the book to try and cut as many companies out of scope because we really do believe that the criteria set out by the original compromise were fair and feasible for companies um but

This doesn’t mean that there is nothing to celebrate for tonight for once this legislation is an unprecedented Global precedent because it’s the first legislation in the world that actually sets the legal expectation I was referring to that actually says companies are expected not to harm human

Rights and that is the law of the land for