Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market - Related links

Related EESC opinions

• SOC/727 Decent work worldwide
• SOC/693 EU Strategy on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings 2021-2025
• REX/544 The new EU-US Trade and Technology Council in action: priorities for business, workers and consumers and necessary safeguards
• REX/539 Trade Policy Review - An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy
• REX/535 Next Generation Trade and Sustainable Development – Reviewing the 15-point action plan
• REX/532 Sustainable supply chains and decent work in international trade
• REX/395 Combating forced labour in the EU and the world: the role of the EU – the EESC's contribution to the 2014 ILO conference
• INT/973 Sustainable corporate governance
• CCMI/188 Textile strategy

Related EESC publications

Workers' Group calls for decent work worldwide

European Commission

• Proposal for a Regulation of the EP and of the Council on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market COM(2022) 453 final
• Call for evidence: Effectively banning products produced, extracted or harvested with forced labour
• Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union (2012/C 326/02)
• Prohibition of slavery and forced labour
• Guidance on due diligence for EU companies to address the risk of forced labour in their operations and supply chains
• Press release: Commission sets out strategy to promote decent work worldwide and prepares instrument for ban on forced labour products
• Communication from the Commission to the EP, the Council and the EESC on decent work worldwide for a global just transition and a sustainable recovery COM/2022/66 final
• Proposal for a Directive of the EP and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 COM/2022/71 final

European Parliament

• EP resolution of 9 June 2022 on a new trade instrument to ban products made by forced labour (2022/2611(RSP))

Council of the EU

• Council Conclusions on Human Rights and Decent Work in Global Supply Chains

European External Action Service

• Statement by the Spokesperson on the situation in Xinjiang
• Xinjiang: Speech by HR/VP Josep Borrell at the EP debate on the human rights situation
• Let’s not only imagine a world without child labour but let’s act on it
• No to child labour – protecting children’s present and future

• ILC 105 - EU Statement - Committee on Promoting Decent Work in Global Supply Chains - Q1

Other sources

• ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
• ILO C105 - Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105)
• ILO decent work
• UNICEF/ILO: Child labour – Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward
• ETUC: Unions back EU ban on forced labour goods
• ITUC on child labour/forced labour

• Civil Society Statement on the Proposed Regulation on Prohibiting Products Made with Forced Labour on the Union Market
• Business Europe's preliminary input to the EC call for evidence - Forced labour
• ETUC Input to the call for evidence - Forced labour
• SMEUnited: Proposal to ban forced labour products lacks clear priorities
• SMEUnited: Ban of forced labour products initiative needs proper impact assessment
• Solidar: A step towards ending forced labour
• AmCham position paper to the call for evidence - Forced labour
• Policy position paper of ASEAN Confederation of Employers on forced labour and human trafficking