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International Legislation
Legally Binding Instrument
26 June 2014, the UN Human Rights Council confirmed it was going “to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument (LBI) to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.”
For further information on the history of the OEIGWG and the progress made on the LBI, is on the United Nations Human Rights Council website. The link to the webpage is 
here.
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
29 April 2020, the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, announced that the Commission has committed to introducing rules for mandatory corporate environmental and human rights due diligence, as part of a Sustainable Corporate Governance initiative. The EU Commissioner requested feedback on the proposals through an online public consultation.
Change The Law Ltd made a submission to the EU Commissioner October 2020. The work on the submission was with some of the members of a group created by Change The Law Limited, the Professional Training for Lawyers & Barristers in the UN Guiding Principles in Business & Human Rights Working Group. Those who worked on the submission are acknowledged on page 1 of the submission, which is found here.
A further submission was made to the EU Commissioner on 8 February 2021 made jointly with the IBA Business & Human Rights Committee and IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit and Change The Law Limited.
The CSDDD was amended, Omnibus provided the amendments and was approved by the EU Council February 2026
National Action Plans (NAPs)
Nearly 40 countries have now officially produced national action plans (NAPs) on Business and Human Rights on the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles (UNGP’s). For updates see https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/wg-business/national-action-plans-business-and-human-rights
Linda attended the UN in Geneva for the 1st Business & Human Rights Forum in December 2012. Linda met the Head of Human Rights, FCDO, UK and was asked to assist with the UK’s national action plan (NAP) on business and human rights. Linda was invited by the FCDO and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to the launch of the UK government's NAP on business and human rights and the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles (UNGPs) 4th September 2013.
The launch was attended by John Ruggie, the architect and builder of the UNGPs, and the Former Foreign Secretary, the Rt. Hon. William Hague. Linda spoke with both John Ruggie and asked the Rt. Hon. William Hague whether the voluntary company reporting on the UNGP’s would be made a legal requirement.
In 2015 Linda attended a series of workshops with the UK’s government Department for BEIS and the FCO, business, civil society, academia and government to review the UK government's national action plan on business and human rights and the UNGP’s.
Change The Law Limited created a global working group in 2018, who are Lawyers, Barristers, Legal Practitioners, Academics, NGO's, Members of the UN and Members of the International Bar Association and Business Leaders. There are 84 members in 27 countries.