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For a decade, producing countries appeared in due diligence law only as risk geographies. Now Thailand drafts its own HREDD bill and India audits its own chains. A survey of the south as author rather than object.
Thailand has drafted a due diligence law, India has built mandatory ESG disclosure with value chain reach, and Italy's producers are demanding their own certification statute. What changes when the objects of due diligence law become its authors?
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Omnibus negotiations settled a narrowed scope; member state transposition now runs to July 2027.
Omnibus lifted employee thresholds and delayed later reporting waves by two years.
Application began for large operators on 30 December 2025; SME obligations follow on 30 June 2026.
Commission building the forced labour risk database ahead of application in December 2027.
Battery supply chain due diligence obligations postponed to August 2027 under the simplification omnibus.
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