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But provisional deal does not include any remediation for victims of forced labour, something civil society organisations regret (Photo: Anti-Slavery International)

EU agrees rules to ban products made with forced labour

The EU reached a provisional agreement on Tuesday (5 March) to ban products made with forced labour from entering or exiting the single market.

The regulation was proposed by the EU Commission in September 2022 and aims to create a legal framework to investigate and eliminate products made with slave labour in companies' supply chains. An estimated 27.6 million people worldwide are exploited by forced labour.

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Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.

But provisional deal does not include any remediation for victims of forced labour, something civil society organisations regret (Photo: Anti-Slavery International)

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Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.

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