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The SCDDA requires companies to identify and address risks of human rights violations, forced labor, child labor, and environmental damage in their supply chains. Companies must develop a due diligence plan that outlines their approach to identifying, mitigating, and addressing risks in their supply chains. Here are the risks that need to be considered within the supply chain:
Human rights risks
1 Prohibition of employment under the applicable minimum age
2 Prohibition of the worst forms of child labor for children under 18 (Federal Law Gazette 2001 II p. 1290, 1291)
2 a) All forms of slavery, child trafficking, forced recruitment of children
2 b) Raising children into prostitution or pornography
2 c) involving children in illegal activities (in particular drug dealing)
2 d) work harmful to the health, safety and morals of children
3. Prohibition of Forced Labor
4. Prohibition of all forms of slavery and economic or sexual exploitation
5. Compliance with occupational health and safety obligations
a) Inadequate safety standards in the provision and maintenance of the workplace, the workplace and the work equipment
b) Lack of protective measures vs. Effects of chemical, physical or biological substances
c)Lack of measures to prevent excessive physical or mental fatigueinsufficient training and instruction of employees
6. Disregard for freedom of association
a)Workers must be free to form or join unions
b)Forming, joining or activity in unions must not result in punishment or retaliation
c)Unions must be allowed to operate freely (right to strike/collective bargaining)
7. the prohibition of unequal treatment in employment
8. Payment of minimum wages
9. No harmful environmental changes
a) Impairment of natural bases for obtaining or producing food
b) Denial of access to safe drinking water
c) Difficulty or destruction of access to medical facilities
d) Harm to a person's health
10. Prohibition of evictions or expropriations, deprivation of land, forests or water for acquisition, development or other use related to the livelihood of persons
11. No security forces engaging in inhumane behavior
a) Prohibition of torture or inhumane treatment
b) Prohibition of injury to life and limb
c) Interference with freedom of association or association
12. Ban on one over 1.-11. further action or omission that affects legal positions
Environmental risks
1. Ban on the manufacture of mercury products according to the Minamata Convention
2. Use according to the Minamata Convention
3. Ban on the treatment of mercury waste according to the Minamata Convention
4. Ban on the production and use of chemicals according to the Stockholm Convention
5. Ban on the use of non environmentally friendly handling, collection, storage, disposal of waste according to the POPs
6. Agreement Ban on the export of hazardous waste to EU 1013/2006m EU 2020/ 2174 and Federal Law Gazette 1994 II p. 2703, 2704 (Basel Agreement)
7. ditto
8. ban on the import of hazardous waste see above
