The Netherlands endorses the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. This includes voluntary international standards in the field of responsible business conduct. These provide voluntary principles and standards for responsible business conduct in areas such as employment and industrial relations, human rights, environment, information disclosure, combating bribery, consumer interests, science and technology, competition, and taxation. The purpose of this report is to identify what businesses must do to comply with (a farreaching interpretation of) the proposed broad due diligence obligation, the Child Labour (Duty of Care) Act and a general Duty of Care.
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