Making human rights due diligence a legal requirement for companies including systems to identify, assess, mitigate or manage human rights risks and impacts to improve that process over time and to disclose the risks and impacts, the steps taken and the results.
Direct Consultation with Governments
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The entity is supportive of a human rights due diligence legal requirement at the EU level.
“Eramet supports the European Commission’s (EC) proposal, presented in February 2022, for a Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The EC ambition to impose due diligence requirements on companies regarding risks that may arise on their value chain in the areas of human rights (child labor for instance) and environment (pollution, biodiversity for example) is essential to improve the industry transformation and transparency.”
Requiring Human rights due diligence of all companies, regardless of sector and size, while still reflecting their individual circumstances.
Direct Consultation with Governments
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The entity supports the coverage of all businesses in the scope of due diligence, but calls for the removal of the extractive industry from the CSDDD's list of high impact sectors.
"However, Eramet is concerned about the Commission’s recommendation relative to the denomination of the extractive industry as a high-impact sector (article 2.1.b.iii), while due diligence commitments are expected from all business actors (according to the OECD and the UNGP) and while the European union has stated on multiple occasions (for example in the September 2020, action plan on raw materials) the European objective to develop an European mining, refining and recycling industry to secure responsible sourcing of raw materials in Europe.Considering the extractive industry as high impact sector will undermine our energy transitionToday, the alignment with these standards is not recognized by the European legislator as a prerequisite to access to the European market. Eramet deeply regrets this situation. Eramet ask for the appropriate regulatory support that will set out criteria to achieve a sustainable mining industry and the financial support to carry out the investments made necessary by the energy transition. Therefore, Eramet calls for the removal of our sector from that list."
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