In mid-September, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union submitted to the Member States a draft compromise on the directive establishing a due diligence for European companies. In this document, obtained by EUROPE, it wants to specify the levels of involvement of a company when a damage is caused in its value chain, as well as the obligations which result from it.
The compromise takes up the operation proposed by the European Commission in February(see EUROPE B12897A7)....