REGULATORY ROUND UP – MEPs PRESS BANGLADESH TO COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND LABOUR STANDARDS TO GET GSP+
July 30th, 2022
The European Parliament’ international trade committee has travelled to Dhaka to press the Bangladesh government to ensure that its country complies with 27 international labour, social and environmental conventions. This, MEPs will say, is needed for Bangladesh to qualify for the EU Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus’ (GSP) privileged trade access. The major knitwear hub will need this status from 2026, when the UN is scheduled to say Bangladesh is no longer a ‘least developed country’ (LDC). It would then leave the EU’s ‘everything but arms’ ...
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