Procedure

Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability

2020/2129(INL)·9th term·AFET / DEVE / INTA / JURI·INL - Legislative initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed

Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): WOLTERS Lara (S&D)

Summary

This legislative-initiative report on corporate due diligence and corporate accountability lets Parliament formally ask the European Commission to propose a law. The committees on Foreign Affairs, Development, International Trade and Legal Affairs handled it, in the field of company law. The tabled amendments diverge on scope: some press for mandatory EU-level cross-sectoral due diligence to identify, cease, prevent and mitigate human, labour and environmental rights violations across supply chains, invoking core ILO conventions and the Paris commitments; others stress that safeguarding human rights remains the states' responsibility, warn against administrative burdens on business and legal uncertainty, seek a transitional period of at least seven years, or would exclude civil liability. Several add transparency and disclosure requirements as preconditions for due diligence.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
24 Sep 2020 – 12 Oct 2020
Plenary vote — Passed
10 Mar 2021 · On the motion for a resolution
Procedure completed

1,348

Amendments

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Members

tabled at least one

Committee(s)

24 Sep 2020 – 12 Oct 2020

Dates

Plenary votes

66 roll-call votes

In plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →

Show the 27 earlier votes
1. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 26 (part 1 of a split vote)
  Official label: § 26/1 · what was voted ↗
  621 for39 against35 abstentions10 did not vote
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2. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 26 (part 2 of a split vote)
  Official label: § 26/2 · what was voted ↗
  603 for74 against17 abstentions11 did not vote
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3. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 26 (part 3 of a split vote)
  Official label: § 26/3 · what was voted ↗
  606 for79 against10 abstentions10 did not vote
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4. 9 Mar 2021Failedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 29
  Official label: § 29 · what was voted ↗
  143 for333 against219 abstentions10 did not vote
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5. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital O
  Official label: Considérant O/1 · what was voted ↗
  649 for20 against26 abstentions10 did not vote
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6. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital O
  Official label: Considérant O/2 · what was voted ↗
  624 for52 against19 abstentions10 did not vote
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7. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital R
  Official label: Considérant R/1 · what was voted ↗
  631 for40 against24 abstentions10 did not vote
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8. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital R
  Official label: Considérant R/2 · what was voted ↗
  565 for105 against25 abstentions10 did not vote
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9. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital W
  Official label: Considérant W/1 · what was voted ↗
  649 for22 against24 abstentions10 did not vote
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10. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital W
  Official label: Considérant W/2 · what was voted ↗
  540 for97 against58 abstentions10 did not vote
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11. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 3 (part 1 of a split vote) — article 4
  Official label: Article 4, § 3/1 · what was voted ↗
  667 for22 against6 abstentions10 did not vote
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12. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 3 (part 2 of a split vote) — article 4
  Official label: Article 4, § 3/2 · what was voted ↗
  534 for134 against27 abstentions10 did not vote
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13. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On paragraph 5 — article 10
  Official label: Article 10, § 5 · what was voted ↗
  591 for83 against21 abstentions10 did not vote
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14. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 12
  Official label: Considérant 12/1 · what was voted ↗
  634 for23 against38 abstentions10 did not vote
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15. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 12
  Official label: Considérant 12/2 · what was voted ↗
  507 for176 against12 abstentions10 did not vote
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16. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 17
  Official label: Considérant 17/1 · what was voted ↗
  658 for12 against25 abstentions10 did not vote
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17. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 17
  Official label: Considérant 17/2 · what was voted ↗
  509 for174 against12 abstentions10 did not vote
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18. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 18
  Official label: Considérant 18/1 · what was voted ↗
  652 for10 against33 abstentions10 did not vote
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19. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 18
  Official label: Considérant 18/2 · what was voted ↗
  520 for147 against28 abstentions10 did not vote
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20. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 19
  Official label: Considérant 19/1 · what was voted ↗
  674 for8 against13 abstentions10 did not vote
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21. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 19
  Official label: Considérant 19/2 · what was voted ↗
  547 for100 against48 abstentions10 did not vote
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22. 9 Mar 2021Passedoutcome from totals
  On recital 25
  Official label: Considérant 25 · what was voted ↗
  546 for91 against57 abstentions11 did not vote
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23. 9 Mar 2021Failedoutcome from totals
  On the annex
  Official label: Annexe, partie II/1 · what was voted ↗
  99 for285 against311 abstentions10 did not vote
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24. 9 Mar 2021Failedoutcome from totals
  On the annex
  Official label: Annexe, partie II/2 · what was voted ↗
  74 for288 against333 abstentions10 did not vote
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25. 9 Mar 2021Failedoutcome from totals
  On the annex
  Official label: Annexe, partie II/3 · what was voted ↗
  74 for290 against331 abstentions10 did not vote
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26. 9 Mar 2021Failedoutcome from totals
  On the annex
  Official label: Annexe, partie II/4 · what was voted ↗
  72 for290 against333 abstentions10 did not vote
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27. 9 Mar 2021Failedoutcome from totals
  On the annex
  Official label: Annexe, partie III/1 · what was voted ↗
  71 for286 against338 abstentions10 did not vote
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9 Mar 2021Failedoutcome from totals
On the annex
Official label: Annexe, partie III/2 · what was voted ↗
72 for289 against334 abstentions10 did not vote
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9 Mar 2021Failedoutcome from totals
On the annex
Official label: Annexe, partie III/3 · what was voted ↗
72 for290 against333 abstentions10 did not vote
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10 Mar 2021Main votePassedoutcome from totals
On the motion for a resolution
Official label: Proposition de résolution · what was voted ↗
504 for79 against112 abstentions10 did not vote
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Showing the 30 most relevant of 66 recorded votes — the full list ships with the data files. · Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability

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