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Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL] Baroness Young of Hornsey presented a bill to place a duty on commercial organisations and public authorities to prevent human rights and environmental harms, including an obligation to conduct and publish human rights and environmental due diligence assessments on their own operations, subsidiaries, and value chains; to make provision for civil liability, penalties, and a criminal offence for failures to comply with the duty; and for connected purposes. It was read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 17)

Tuesday 28 November 2023 between 15:14 and 15:15

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Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill [HL] Baroness Young of Hornsey presented a bill to place a duty on commercial organisations and public authorities to prevent human rights and environmental harms, including an obligation to conduct and publish human rights and environmental due diligence assessments on their own operations, subsidiaries, and value chains; to make provision for civil liability, penalties, and a criminal offence for failures to comply with the duty; and for connected purposes. It was read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 17)
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