La France frappe à nouveau pour couler la directive européenne sur le devoir de vigilance

Reclaim Finance accuses the French government of attempting to undermine the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The organization claims that France, via Bruno Le Maire, is demanding the company size threshold be raised from 500 employees to 5,000 employees, which would exempt approximately 14,000 companies from the requirement to prevent human rights violations and environmental pollution in their value chains.

• France is attempting to block the adoption of the European due diligence directive by demanding a revision of the scope to exclude over 80% of the affected companies. Specifically, France wants to raise the application threshold from the agreed 500 employees to 5,000 employees, matching the existing French law from 2017.
• The proposed increase in the threshold to 5,000 employees would exempt roughly 14,000 companies operating within the European territory from the directive's requirements to prevent environmental pollution and human rights violations.
• France's current position contradicts its own previous assessments; a 2020 government-commissioned evaluation and a report from the National Assembly's foreign affairs commission both suggested that the existing French thresholds were too high and should be lowered.

APA

Martin, L. (2024). La France frappe à nouveau pour couler la directive européenne sur le devoir de vigilance. Reclaim Finance. https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2024/02/28/la-france-frappe-a-nouveau-pour-couler-la-directive-europeenne-sur-le-devoir-de-vigilance/

Chicago

Martin, Léo. La France frappe à nouveau pour couler la directive européenne sur le devoir de vigilance. Reclaim Finance, 2024. https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2024/02/28/la-france-frappe-a-nouveau-pour-couler-la-directive-europeenne-sur-le-devoir-de-vigilance/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{martin2024france, author = {Martin, Léo}, title = {{La France frappe à nouveau pour couler la directive européenne sur le devoir de vigilance}}, publisher = {Reclaim Finance}, year = {2024}, month = feb, url = {https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2024/02/28/la-france-frappe-a-nouveau-pour-couler-la-directive-europeenne-sur-le-devoir-de-vigilance/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }