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    15.07.2020

    Newsletter ESG and Law, July 2020


    Enterprises should prepare for increased also regulatory measures to promote a sustainable economy and the announced transition to a “Green Economy”. At present, this is also particularly true with regard to the German law on due diligence in the supply chain which has now been explicitly announced.

     

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