The EU must drastically cut the number of companies required to comply with its law designed to curb abuses in supply chains, the lawmaker in charge of negotiating the directive has said.
Swedish conservative MEP Jörgen Warborn said, however, that the politically toxic law — which was finalised last year and will require companies to take action on environmental and human rights abuses — must remain in force despite calls from Paris and Berlin for it to be scrapped.
“If you go down the line of deleting [the supply chain law] then I think European businesses have to be prepared for the fact that you could have due diligence legislation in different member states,” Warborn said.