Danish Institute for Human Rights

The Danish Institute for Human Rights (the Institute) welcomes the opportunity to respond to this call for evidence on the digital package on simplification launched by the European Commission. The Institute is Denmark´s national human rights institution with a legal mandate to monitor and promote the implementation of human rights, including fundamental rights, in Denmark and abroad.

The Danish Institute for Human Rights welcomes the revision of the public procurement directives. The Institute recommends that any revision ensures: 1. Alignment with international responsible business conduct standards 2. A coherent approach to responsible business conduct in the EU 3. An integrated approach to human rights and environmental objectives in public procurement in the EU 4.

There is a lack of data on implementation of socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) which is a barrier in assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of existing measures in addressing impacts on society of the goods, services, and works purchased, such as promoting employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, and compliance with social and labour rights.

The Danish Institute for Human Rights (the Institute) welcomes that the EU identifies adverse social and environmental impacts as one of the six key problems in the supply of critical raw materials. Indeed, the production of critical and processing of raw materials can have significant adverse impacts on the human rights of workers and communities.

The Danish Institute for Human Rights (the Institute) welcomes that the Commissions draft revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards (the draft) generally aligns with EFRAGs draft on several key aspects. It positively upholds the double materiality principle, which is key as it enables companies to report their sustainability impacts, financial risks and opportunities in an integrated manner.

The Danish Institute for Human Rights is grateful for the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. To ensure that recovery after COVID-19 is just and equitable, that human rights abuses connected to unsustainable business practices are tackled and that the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation are adequately addressed, there is a need…

The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) is an independent National Human Rights Institution established by the Danish Parliament in accordance with the UN Paris Principles and is accredited with A status. Under its legal mandate, the DIHR's main functions are to monitor human rights in Denmark and promote human rights internationally, including through engagement with non-state actors.

The DIHR welcomes the amendment of the SFDR as an opportunity to consolidate the human rights/social sustainability dimension of this regulation. The DIHR's recommendations for the SFDR review (see briefing attached) seek to facilitate policy coherence with related EU sustainable finance and corporate sustainability instruments as well as coherence with international standards on responsible business conduct…

JULY 2021 FEEDBACK TO THE CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING ADOPTED ACT INTRODUCTION The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) welcomes the recognition by the European Commission of the vital role that non-financial reporting plays in encouraging responsible business conduct and efforts to reform the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) to address the existing gap between the sustainability information…

Opening of the attached position paper · the full paper is on the Commission’s record (source link above)

The Danish Institute for Human Rights acknowledges the European Commission (EC)'s initiative to establish a European Critical Raw Materials Centre (the Centre). The Centre can play an important role in improving coordination and resilience in the EU on critical raw material (CRM).