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.
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The entity supports the introduction of a mandatory due diligence law at the EU level, while calling for more clarity on specific definitions and approaches.
“WVMetalle welcomes the ambitious proposal and its contribution to fulfil our common goal of ensuring the ethically and responsible sourcing of metals needed for Europe´s twin transition, while taking into consideration the social and environmental risks in certain areas of global metals and minerals supply.” “WVMetalle is pleased to see the possible inclusion and recognition of industry initiatives, such as the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) and the Copper Mark, although more clarity on how exactly they will be included is needed. This recognition of industry initiatives and proven and already available standards as described in the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct (2018) are critical to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and applicability when addressing the requirements of the proposed Directive.” “Concerning the definitions used in the Commission’s proposal, we align ourselves to Eurometaux position that more clarifications and guidance should be provided, especially when it comes to the responsibilities for companies, implied stakeholders (“established business partner”) and specific approach to be adopted (e.g., value chain vs. supply chain).” "WVMetalle welcomes the CSDD legislative proposal adopted by the Commission in February 2022 as a good starting point to make responsible and ethical sourcing of metals and minerals an essential part of EU policy. To ensure that due diligence is applied as uniformly as possible across the EU Member states, stronger policy coherence between the existing and future requirements as well as coherence with other EU policies and national initiatives (e.g., German supply chain act and French due diligence act) is key."
Enabling judicial enforcement with liability and compensation in case of harm caused by not fulfilling the due diligence obligations.
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The entity advocates for the exclusion of civil liability provisions in the CSDDD.
“In accordance to the already existing German supply chain act, which was adopted in June 2021, we advocate for the exclusion of the civil liability part of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directive as it would put into question the risk based due diligence approach. The respect of human rights and environmental laws shouldn´t rely solely on the companies but should be enforced through additional European and International cooperation, further down the supply chain.”
Require companies to implement a due diligence process covering their value chain to identify, prevent, mitigate and remediate human rights impacts and improve that practice over time.
Direct Consultation with Governments
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The entity opposes the inclusion of secondary raw materials in the CSDDD.
“We regret to see the inclusion of the secondary raw materials in the scope of the Directive as for metals, traceability is virtually impossible due to metallurgical reasons. Once materials are processed into new high-quality materials, the origin of processed materials can often no longer be documented. Given the importance of metals in the circular economy, traceability of secondary raw materials would not only create additional bureaucratic burden and be extremely costly, but it would be factually impossible to implement. Therefore, we would like to demand the exclusion of secondary raw materials under the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, as already done in the past under the Conflicts Minerals Regulation (EU) 2017/821.”
| Legislation | Phase of Active Company Engagement | Position |
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| Member | Performance band |
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| Glencore | F |