ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explains aforementioned legal instruments all establish processes and mechanisms that have the effect of implementing the human rights due diligence (HRDD). According to the European Commission, One of the aims of the European Union is to ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice, respect for human rights, high labour and environmental standards, and health and safety protection. Following the UN Guiding Principles structure, in the Editor's view the state duty to protect human rights has received a significant, but in some regards still not decisive, interpretation at European level, at least pursuant to the Council of Europe (COE) approach. Thus, pursuant to the European approach, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights is likely to extend extraterritorially, so as to include the activities performed abroad by the subsidiaries of the European multinational corporations (MNC).
