Legal brief: Backing up green claims

10th November 2013


With the European Commission set on tightening the rules governing products' environmental assertions, Ross Fairley advises companies to scrutinise their supply chains

With a number of sustainability scandals hitting the headlines in 2013 – from the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh to problems enforcing good labour standards in electronics fa

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