Last week, two more shiny new regulatory appliances started to roll off the EU’s legislative assembly line: a due diligence law making companies liable for environmental and human rights abuses in their supply chains and new rules for recycling plastic packaging.Europe might be struggling for long-term economic growth, but its regulatory productivity is unsurpassed. Brussels has also created a deforestation regulation to block the sale of commodities grown on recently cleared land and a carbon border adjustment mechanism compelling overseas exporters in effect to respect Europe’s emissions pricing system, and is devising a rule banning products made with forced labour.
最近,歐盟立法流水線又生成了兩項閃亮的新監管措施:一項是盡職調查法,要求企業對其供應鏈中的破壞環境和侵犯人權行爲負責;另一項是塑膠包裝回收新規。