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Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL]

This bill requires large commercial organisations and public authorities to prevent human rights and environmental harms across their operations and supply chains, conduct due diligence assessments, and publish annual reports. Victims can sue for damages if companies fail to prevent foreseeable harms.

A Bill to place a duty on commercial organisations and public authorities to prevent human rights and environmental harms, including an obligation to conduct and publish human rights and environmental due diligence assessments on their own operations, subsidiaries, and value chains; to make provision for civil liability, penalties, and a criminal offence for failures to comply with the duty; and for connected purposes.

Status: In Progress

Current House: Lords

Stage: 2nd reading

Sponsored by: Baroness Young of Hornsey

Introduced: 2023-11-28