On Monday 25 April MEPs on the Committee on International Trade (INTA) held discussions with experts and the European Commission on the forthcoming legislative proposal to ban forced labour products from the market.
According to James Cockayne, a professor at the University of Nottingham specialising in international politics and anti-slavery, it would not be appropriate to exclude small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the scope of the future legislative instrument. “We...