Audits & certifications of supply chains

The globalization of the economy enables companies to flexible production, delivery and disposal to frequently foreign suppliers. However, low costs regularly correct with lower occupational safety and environmental standards. The “supply chain directive” of the European Union (EU), which came into force in July 2024, reacts to these conditions and for the first time establishes a binding legal framework for a cross-sector obligation to respect human rights and the environment by companies.

A common independent scientific study by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Grund and Human Rights and the German Institute for Sustainability, Corporate Law and Reporting (only) of the University of Cologne examined the function and importance of audits and certifications in this context between November 2023 and January 2025.

Study presentation

Camilla Haake, study author, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Basic and Human Rights

discussion

Michael Lysander Fremuth, Scientific Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Grund and Human Rights as well as professor of basic and human rights at the University of Vienna

Felix Mayr, “EU and International” department of AK Vienna

Anna Mago, „Fairtrade“

The project “Audits and certifications in delivery/value chains” Was through the AK Vienna financially funded.

Study presentation & discussion audits & certifications of supply chains

Datum: 28.02.2025, 2:00 p.m. – 28.02.2025, 4:00 p.m.

Art: Lectures and discussions

Ort: Factory. Literature, knowledge and advice

Universitätsstrasse 9

1010 Wien

Austria

URL: https://veranstaltung.akwien.at/de/audits-zertifizierungen/