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The rules say the EU Commission's regulatory board is not supposed to discuss individual files in meetings with lobbyists, but the evidence in our report reveals a major loophole: they can be — and are — lobbied in writing (Photo: Peter Teffer)

How industry watered-down new EU supply chain rules

This is the story of how the European Commission, with more than a little help from business lobbyists, sabotaged its own proposal for a progressive law to hold companies to account for abuses in their overseas supply chains.

Such a law is long overdue to help avoid atrocities such as oil spills in the Niger delta, and the building collapse in Rana Plaza, Bangladesh which claimed over 1,100 textile workers' lives.

In February thi...

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The rules say the EU Commission's regulatory board is not supposed to discuss individual files in meetings with lobbyists, but the evidence in our report reveals a major loophole: they can be — and are — lobbied in writing (Photo: Peter Teffer)

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Vicky Cann and Kenneth Haar are researchers at Corporate Europe Observatory, a NGO monitoring corporate lobbying of Brussels policy-making.

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