The Member States’ ambassadors to the European Union (Coreper) will be meeting on Friday 19 January to examine the third compromise text drawn up by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU on the draft regulation banning products made using forced labour in the EU (see EUROPE B13021A17).
While the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council was slow to take the matter in hand, drawing criticism from MEPs(see EUROPE B13215A1), Belgium has now accelerated the work and this third compromise...