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,欧盟立法流水线又生成了两项闪亮的新监管措施:一项是尽职调查法,要求企业对其供应链中的破坏环境和侵犯人权行为负责;另一项是塑料包装回收新规。