on 9 June 2022, MEPs voted by an overwhelming majority (503 for, 6 against, 4 abstentions) to adopt a resolution calling on the European Commission to draft a new instrument to ban the import and export of products made or transported by forced labour. More specifically, it would involve banning “products from a particular site of production, a particular importer or company, those from a particular region in the case of state-sponsored forced labour and those from a particular transport vessel or fleet”.
This new instrument should also require “responsible companies to provide remediation to the affected workers prior to import restrictions being lifted”. This text would supplement the proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence that seeks to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour along global value chains.
“The Commission will have to define its methods by September” stated MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, who also expressed his satisfaction at the vote held on the same day for a resolution condemning the deportation of Uighurs as a crime against humanity and a “serious risk of genocide” and calling for sanctions against the Chinese officials responsible.
(Published in IR Notes 188 – 15 June 2022)
European Parliament: Resolution of 9 June 2022 on a new trade instrument
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