While the European Commission emphasises that the weakened EU Supply Chain Directive is intended to prevent companies in the EU's internal market from being confronted with multiple, potentially incompatible national regulations, recent attempts to suspend or completely abolish the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz - LkSG) have failed.
On 13 March 2020, the Legal Affairs Committee rejected a motion to reduce bureaucracy. The CDU/CSU parliamentary group's motion on bureaucracy reduction (20/8856) entitled "Enabling innovation, facilitating investment - agenda for bureaucracy reduction and better regulation" called for the start of the LkSG to be postponed until 1 January 2025.
In addition, on 13 March 2020, a majority of the Economic Affairs Committee rejected the AfD motion on the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (20/10062), which called on the German government to repeal the law and "unequivocally" oppose the implementation of the EU Supply Chain Directive as part of the EU trialogue.
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