On 13 December, after long hours of late-night ‘trilogue’ negotiations, the European co-legislators finally reached a provisional agreement on the due diligence directive (see EUROPE B13314A12). However, several parts of the text still needed to be validated at a technical level before a final version could be approved.
These discussions are still ongoing. EUROPE has been able to obtain the latest version of the four-column document, which summarises the different positions of the...