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28 March 20224. Preparing a Policy Statement
As part of risk management, company management must issue a policy statement on its human rights strategy: compliance procedures, the priority risks identified in the risk analysis, and the expectations placed on employees and suppliers form its minimum content.
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28 March 20223. Conducting Regular Risk Analyses
Companies in scope must analyse human rights and environmental risks in their own operations and at direct suppliers, prioritise the findings, report them to decision-makers, and repeat the analysis annually or when the risk situation changes.
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28 March 20222. Defining Internal Areas of Responsibility
Defining internal areas of responsibility under the supply chain rules: who monitors risk management, how findings reach decision-makers, and the EU directive’s requirement that non-EU companies appoint a registered representative in a Member State.
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28 March 20221. Establishing a Risk Management System
Under the German Supply Chain Act and the planned EU directive, companies must operate an effective risk management system, anchor it in all relevant business processes, appoint clear responsibility for monitoring it, and consider the interests of those affected along the supply chain.
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28 March 2022Specific Obligation Cases Within the Scope of the Due Diligence Obligation (Summary)
A summary of the specific obligations comprising supply chain due diligence under the German Act: risk management, internal responsibility, risk analysis, the policy statement, preventive and remedial measures, the complaints procedure, documentation and reporting, and the Directive's notion of appropriate measures.
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28 March 2022Companies Subject to the Due Diligence Obligation
Who falls within the scope of the German Supply Chain Act — the 3,000-worker threshold, reduced to 1,000 in January 2024 — and how the EU directive, now narrower than the Act, reaches non-EU companies and entire chains of activities.
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