Meeting on Friday 19 January to discuss the third compromise text proposed by the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council, the Member States’ ambassadors to the European Union (Coreper) agreed that several details of the regulation prohibiting products made with forced labour still needed to be ‘fine-tuned’ before it could be validated.
Although the latest version of the revised regulation was due to be unanimously approved (see EUROPE B13330A1), several Member States decided to give...