Update: EU Human Rights Regulatory Developments – Implications for Australian Businesses

The Office of the Australian Anti-Slavery Commissioner, together with Norton Rose Fulbright, has published an update to their joint brief, EU regulatory developments on human rights: Implications for Australian businesses, first published on 18 September 2025. 

The EU continues to strengthen its human rights regulatory framework, with recent developments to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and ongoing preparations for the Forced Labour Regulation. This update outlines what’s changed, what’s coming, and the practical implications for Australian businesses supplying into EU markets – including how buyer expectations around due diligence, traceability and forced labour risk management are likely to increase in practice. It also includes two practical scenarios showing how these requirements may play out for Australian producers and manufacturers supplying into EU value chains.

Read the original brief published 18 September 2025: EU regulatory developments on human rights: Implications for Australian businesses.