SUPPLY CHAIN DUE DILIGENCE DIRECTIVE MAY HAVE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Randy M. Mott JD @All rights reserved. The author has been invovled in waste management and remediation cases for over thirty years in the US, Canada and Europe. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa, a double honors major in politicla science and history, and a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. He is currently Director for Euorpe, Africa and the Middle East for CHWMEG Inc. (a nonprofit association devoted to waste stewardship). The views expressed here are his own. While the pending Supply Chain Due Diligence Directive from the European Union has been widely discussed by law firms and environmental consultants and produced many different EU documents, there has been almost no discussion of its possible unintended consequences. This article will describe some key concerns from the standpoint of the companies that will be affected by the Directive. For this discussion we will refer to the last Parliamen