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Corporate sustainability due diligence: How to integrate human rights and environmental concerns in value chains
Companies can play a key role in building a sustainable economy and society. At the same time, their global value chains can pose risks to human rights and the environment. A growing number of EU companies have taken initiatives to deploy due diligence processes, often using existing voluntary international standards on responsible business conduct. Some Member States have meanwhile started developing their own legal frameworks on corporate due diligence. In a legislative-initiative resolution adopted ...
Devoir de vigilance des entreprises en matière de durabilité
En février 2022, la Commission européenne a publié une proposition de directive sur le devoir de vigilance des entreprises en matière de durabilité, en vue de l’adoption d’obligations de vigilance en matière de droits de l’homme et d’environnement, ainsi que d’un devoir de vigilance des administrateurs. Le Parlement demande de longue date une législation européenne contraignante en la matière, notamment dans une résolution adoptée en 2021. En mars 2023, la commission des affaires juridiques a adopté ...
Les politiques de l’Union – Au service des citoyens: Protéger les consommateurs européens
Les règles de protection des consommateurs ont amélioré les droits des consommateurs dans l’Union européenne depuis les années 1970. Bien que le niveau de protection est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’un des plus élevés au monde, les consommateurs de l’Union européenne rencontrent tout de même certains problèmes. Selon les dernières statistiques disponibles, en2016, un consommateur sur cinq déclarait avoir eu une raison de se plaindre au cours des douze derniers mois, un chiffre largement inchangé ...
Fostering cross-border investment – Law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims
The Commission is proposing to harmonise the conflict of law rules in regard to the applicable national law applicable to third-party effects in the case of cross-border assignments of rights. This initial appraisal of the Commission’s impact assessment on the proposal observes that the impact assessment is characterised by a lack of quantitative evidence and this is acknowledged explained by the impact assessment itself. The IA, however, still seems to make a reasonable case for the proposal on ...
Enhancement of social legislation in road transport I (Driving time)
Regulation 561/2006 lays down rules applicable to driving times, breaks and rest periods for drivers engaged in the carriage of goods and passengers by road. Various resources show that presently there are several challenges linked with the implementation of the regulation. These include diverging enforcement practice applied across the different EU Member States, clarity of the text of the regulation, broad discretion of the Member States and various exemptions allowed by the regulation. These challenges ...
This study was commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee. It looks at the interrelation between the Consumer Sales and Guarantee Directive (CSD) and the Ecodesign Directive (EDD) with respect to guarantees and product expected lifetime. Through legal research and stakeholder surveys, it develops an EU lifespan guarantee model, which could be implemented by amendments to the proposal for an Online ...
Limitation periods for road traffic accidents
Widely differing limitation periods for tort claims across the European Union (EU) Member States can lead to victims of cross-border road traffic accidents losing their right to compensation. This European Added Value Assessment (EAVA) sketches out the weaknesses of the relevant existing legal frameworks which create obstacles for victims of cross-border road traffic accidents in accessing legal justice. Furthermore, the EAVA identifies the costs that arise on account of differing rules on limitation ...
Commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI committee, this study provides an analysis of the potential legal impact of the introduction of connected and autonomous vehicles on rules of private international law determining jurisdiction and applicable law in the EU Member States in the event of a cross-border traffic accident. Following a case-studies approach, it makes a number of recommendations to improve ...
Research for REGI Committee - Simplified Cost Options in Practice
This study reviews experience with the application of Simplified Cost Options (SCOs), primarily under the European Regional Development Fund, in the programming periods 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. The focus is on the achievement of the immediate and wider objectives of the SCOs, notably the reduction of administrative burden/cost and the refocussing of resources from financial reporting and control to the implementation and achievement of policy objectives. The study presents the first evidence that ...
Cableway installations: Proposal for a new regulation
Around 17 500 cableway installations currently exist in western Europe and the Alps, representing 60% of the global total. European industry has generally held a dominant position in the global cableway installations market, with the ski industry remaining the primary market for cableway technology. The new regulation covering the European Economic Area is to replace Directive 2000/9/EC relating to cableway installations designed to carry persons. Its aim is to simplify the current rules, align them ...