Volume 10 : 1
Editorial Introduction: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: The Emerging European Union Regime
The New EU Rules on Non-Financial Reporting: Potential Impacts on Access to Remedy?
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains: Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Procurement in the European Union
Business and Human Rights Abuses: Claiming Compensation under the Brussels I Recast
The Enforcement of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence: From the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the Legal Systems of EU Countries
State Commitment in Implementing the UNGPs and the Emerging Regime of National Action Plans: A Comparative Analysis
Cleaning Dirty Hands? Some Thoughts on Private Companies, Migration and CSR in the European Union
Towards a Holistic Approach to Business and Human Rights in the European Union
Editorial Introduction: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: The Emerging European Union Regime
The New EU Rules on Non-Financial Reporting: Potential Impacts on Access to Remedy?
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains: Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Procurement in the European Union
Business and Human Rights Abuses: Claiming Compensation under the Brussels I Recast
The Enforcement of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence: From the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the Legal Systems of EU Countries
State Commitment in Implementing the UNGPs and the Emerging Regime of National Action Plans: A Comparative Analysis
Cleaning Dirty Hands? Some Thoughts on Private Companies, Migration and CSR in the European Union
Towards a Holistic Approach to Business and Human Rights in the European Union
Year
2016
Volume
10
Number
1
Page
41
Language
English
Court
Reference
O. OUTHWAITE en O. MARTIN-ORTEGA, “Human Rights in Global Supply Chains: Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Procurement in the European Union”, HRILD 2016, nr. 1, 41-71
Recapitulation
The global supply chains of multinational enterprises are complex and multi-tiered, often involving many stages of production and spanning several jurisdictions. Important questions remain about how to ensure that human rights are respected in these supply chains, including how multinational enterprises are to exercise the responsibility to respect human rights in their supply chains and the role that can be played by states in protecting human rights outside of their borders. This article focuses specifically on the potential for states to use public procurement as a tool to promote human rights protection beyond their borders by purchasing goods from companies that ensure that human rights are respected throughout the whole supply chain of the procured product. The article considers the responsibilities of states and business enterprises with respect to global supply chains, including the recognised relevance of public procurement in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as part of the ‘state-business nexus’. The remaining sections analyse how the historical role of public procurement in pursuing social aims has developed to encompass matters of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and of human rights specifically; the development of the EU’s CSR strategy and the approach of the EU to linking this with developments in the EU procurement regime; and, finally, the extent to which the recently revised EU procurement regime supports the use of procurement as a tool to promote human rights in global supply chains.