INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU REGULATION WILL PUSH KNITWEAR BRANDS TO UNDERTAKE FORCED LABOUR DUE DILIGENCE
April 26th, 2024
Knitwear brands in the European Union (EU) face additional due diligence on their supply chains after the EU Council of Ministers and European Parliament backed a proposed EU regulation allowing regulators to ban products made wholly or partly with forced labour. National regulators, or – where goods are made in a non-EU country, the European Commission - would be empowered by the law to investigate claims of forced labour in supply chains. Where that is demonstrated, relevant goods can be withdrawn from sale, seized and confiscated. The law – once formally ...
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