EU urged to exempt more companies from contentious supply chain law

The EU is facing pressure to simplify a controversial supply chain law aimed at addressing environmental and human rights abuses, as Swedish MEP Jörgen Warborn argues for reducing the number of companies subject to compliance. While the European Commission has proposed raising the employee threshold for compliance from 500 to 1,000, Warborn suggests increasing it to 3,000 and eliminating mandatory climate transition plans. Amidst divisions among member states, including calls from France and Germany to scrap the law, approximately 1,000 amendments are under review, highlighting the ongoing debate over bureaucracy versus corporate accountability.

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