On Thursday 10 November, the Greens/EFA group, the NGO Anti-Slavery International and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) published a “model law” to combat forced labour. They suggest an alternative to the European Commission’s proposal presented in September (see EUROPE B13021A17).
According to the authors, more focus should be given to the workers concerned, not just to banning products from the European market. This implies, in their view, that the...