Initiative Lieferkettengesetz

Titelbild: Yes EU can! EU-Lieferkettengesetz

Unternehmen profitieren enorm von der Globalisierung, müssen aber kaum Konsequenzen fürchten für menschenrechtliche und ökologische Schäden, die in ihrem globalen Geschäft entstehen. Germanwatch ist Teil der Initiative Lieferkettengesetz und fordert, dass sich die Bundesregierung für ein wirksames EU-Lieferkettengesetz engagiert. Yes EU Can!

Die Initiative Lieferkettengesetz ist ein breites, zivilgesellschaftliches Bündnis aus Menschenrechts-, Entwicklungs- und Umweltorganisationen, Gewerkschaften und Kirchen.

Germanwatch hat die Initiative mit initiiert und ist im Trägerkreis aktiv. Wir treten gemeinsam ein für eine Welt, in der Unternehmen Menschenrechte achten und Umweltzerstörung vermeiden — auch im Ausland. Erschreckende Berichte über brennende Fabriken, ausbeuterische Kinderarbeit oder zerstörte Regenwälder zeigen immer wieder: Freiwillig kommen Unternehmen ihrer Verantwortung nicht ausreichend nach. Das im Jahr 2021 verabschiedete deutsche Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz war zwar ein wichtiger erster Schritt in die richtige Richtung, aber leider enthält es noch wesentliche Lücken. Aus diesem Grund setzen wir uns für ein ambitioniertes EU-Lieferkettengesetz ein. Denn Unternehmen, die Schäden an Mensch und Umwelt in ihren Lieferketten verursachen oder in Kauf nehmen, sollten dafür haften müssen. Skrupellose Geschäftspraktiken dürfen sich nicht mehr lohnen.

Aktuelles zur Initiative Lieferkettengesetz

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In light of the severity and the short timeframe that remains to take action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, it is important that the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) leaves no legal ambiguity concerning corporate obligations regarding climate change. The aim of this paper is to provide recommendations on Article 15 “Combating climate change” of the Commission’s proposal which lacks precision regarding the targets and content of the transition plans it refers to.
News
On 23 February 2022, the EU Commission published its long-awaited proposal for an EU supply chain law. The European Parliament and the EU Council – including a number of German government representatives – are now discussing the draft law. Together with more than 220 civil society organisations from Europe and the rest of the world, Germanwatch clarified which changes the Commission's proposal needs from the perspective of civil society.
Blogpost
Deforestation, overexploitation and climate change threaten forests around the world. The European Union also plays an inglorious role in this. To change this, the European Commission presented yesterday a legislative proposal to prevent products from forest destruction from entering the EU internal market in the future. At the same time, a general EU supply chain law is being planned. Is the EU Commission duplicating its efforts? No, say Julia Otten and Johannes Heeg from our member Germanwatch and the Initiative Lieferkettengestz.
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In the context of several European legislative processes on supply chains this study emphasizes the importance of binding legislation for companies to comply with environmental aspects in addition to human rights along their supply chains.

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An analysis by Initiative Lieferkettengesetz

The German "Supply Chain Due Diligence Act" is adopted! But what exactly is behind this? Our analysis shows: We are still a long way from reaching our goal in the fight against human rights violations and environmental degradation in global value chains, but with the new law, we are finally off to a good start.

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In the last year, the German government held intense and controversial discussions on the introduction and design of national due diligence regulation. However, environmental aspects of corporate due diligence were given little attention. By contrast, the debate at European level is already much more progressive. On January 27, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament explicitly recommended the inclusion of independent environmental due diligence requirements in a future European due diligence legislation. 

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To this date, environmental due diligence has hardly been integrated into legislations and it is not yet as concrete as UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are in regard to human rights concerning responsibilities of corporations. Human rights due diligence captures environmental destruction when it is directly linked to human rights violation like a toxic spillage, which directly causes death or health issues.

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For months, there has been an intensive and controversial debate in Germany on a Human Rights Due Diligence Regulation (so called supply chain law). Recently, a new proposal has been under discussion - a law for a supply chain register. Now that the debate on the supply chain register is public and this proposal has also been submitted to EU Justice Commissioner Reynders, Germanwatch, Greenpeace and INKOTA hereby publicly present their central points of criticism of the supply chain register.

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