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Activities of Antonius MANDERS related to 2022/0051(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)
2023/05/31
Dossiers: 2022/0051(COD)

Amendments (12)

Amendment 532 #
1. This Directive shall apply to companies which are formed in accordance with the legislation of a Member State and which fulfil one of the following conditions: (a) the company had more than 500 employees on average and had a net worldwide turnover of more than EUR 150 million in the last financial year for which annual financial statements have been prepared; (b) the company did not reach the thresholds under point (a), but had more than 250 employees on average and had a net worldwide turnover of more than EUR 40 million in the last financial year for which annual financial statements have been prepared, provided that at least 50% of this net turnover was generated in one or more of the following sectors: (i) the manufacture of textiles, leather and related products (including footwear), and the wholesale trade of textiles, clothing and footwear; (ii) (including aquaculture), the manufacture of food products, and the wholesale trade of agricultural raw materials, live animals, wood, food, and beverages; (iii) regardless of where they are extracted from (including crude petroleum, natural gas, coal, lignite, metals and metal ores, as well as all other, non-metallic minerals and quarry products), the manufacture of basic metal products, other non-metallic mineral products and fabricated metal products (except machinery and equipment), and the wholesale trade of mineral resources, basic and intermediate mineral products (including metals and metal ores, construction materials, fuels, chemicals and other intermediate products).deleted agriculture, forestry, fisheries the extraction of mineral resources
2022/12/07
Committee: JURI
Amendment 598 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. This Directive shall also apply to companies which are formed in accordance with the legislation of a third country, and fulfil one of the following conditions:.
2022/12/07
Committee: JURI
Amendment 603 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) generated a net turnover of more than EUR 150 million in the Union in the financial year preceding the last financial year;deleted
2022/12/07
Committee: JURI
Amendment 612 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) generated a net turnover of more than EUR 40 million but not more than EUR 150 million in the Union in the financial year preceding the last financial year, provided that at least 50% of its net worldwide turnover was generated in one or more of the sectors listed in paragraph 1, point (b).deleted
2022/12/07
Committee: JURI
Amendment 621 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. For the purposes of paragraph 1, the number of part-time employees shall be calculated on a full-time equivalent basis. Temporary agency workers shall be included in the calculation of the number of employees in the same way as if they were workers employed directly for the same period of time by the company.deleted
2022/12/07
Committee: JURI
Amendment 631 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4
4. As regards the companies referred to in paragraph 1, the Member State competent to regulate matters covered in this Directive shall be the Member State in which the company has its registered office.deleted
2022/12/07
Committee: JURI
Amendment 729 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) ‘value chain’: means activities related to the production of goods or the provision of services by a company, including the development of the product or the service and the use and disposal of the product as well as the related activities of upstream, solely up to and including the first sale, and downstream established business relationships of the company. As regards companies within the meaning of point (a)(iv), ‘value chain’ with respect to the provision of these specific services shall only include the activities of the clients receiving such loan, credit, and other financial services and of other companies belonging to the same group whose activities are linked to the contract in question. The value chain of such regulated financial undertakings does not cover SMEs receiving loan, credit, financing, insurance or reinsurance of such entities;
2022/12/07
Committee: JURI
Amendment 880 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that companies take appropriate measures to identify actual and potential adverse human rights impacts and adverse environmental impacts arising from their own operations or those of their subsidiaries and, where related to their value chains, from their established business relationship their value chains, in accordance with paragraph 2, 3 and 4.
2022/12/07
Committee: JURI
Amendment 1563 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that, when fulfilling their demonstrable duty to act in the best interest of the company, the relevant directors of companies referred to in Article 2(1) take into account the consequences of their decisions for sustainability matters, including, where applicable, human rights, climate change and environmental consequences, including in the short, medium and long term.
2022/12/08
Committee: JURI
Amendment 1566 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure that their laws, regulations and administrative provisions providing for a breach of directors’the relevant directors’ demonstrable duties apply also to the provisions of this Article.
2022/12/08
Committee: JURI
Amendment 1576 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that the relevant directors of companies referred to in Article 2(1) are responsible for putting in place and overseeing the due diligence actions referred to in Article 4 and in particular the due diligence policy referred to in Article 5, with due consideration for relevant input from stakeholders and civil society organisations. The relevant directors shall report to the board of directors in that respect.
2022/12/08
Committee: JURI
Amendment 1579 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure that the relevant directors take steps to adapt the corporate strategy to take into account the actual and potential adverse impacts identified pursuant to Article 6 and any measures taken pursuant to Articles 7 to 9.
2022/12/08
Committee: JURI