No less than five parliamentary committees adopted their reports for opinion on the ‘corporate due diligence’ directive on Tuesday 24 January in the European Parliament. They broadly agreed with the proposals of the rapporteur on the text, Lara Wolters (S&D, Dutch), who advocates a more ambitious directive on human rights and respect for the environment (see EUROPE B13060A2).
In the Committee on International Trade (INTA), the EPP suffered a defeat on the report for opinion by Barry...