The EU reached a provisional agreement on Tuesday (5 March) to ban products made with forced labour from entering or exiting the single market.
The regulation was proposed by the EU Commission in September 2022 and aims to create a legal framework to investigate and eliminate products made with slave labour in companies' supply chains. An estimated 27.6 million people worldwide are exploited by forced labour.
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