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Source-backed reporting and analysis connected to the companies, capabilities, authorities, and operating domains it affects.
The OECD guidance organizes responsible-business due diligence as six connected activities: embed policy, identify and assess impacts, act, track, communicate, and remediate where appropriate. Supplier screening can inform that process, but it cannot stand in for the operating decisions and evidence the full loop requires.
The Commission's June 2026 preparedness package makes the operating test concrete: companies may need to explain how they address forced-labour risk for products in scope, while authorities—not vendor scores—make investigation and enforcement decisions.
The 2026 revision changes scope and application timing while leaving buyers with a continuing need to distinguish legal applicability from mapping and risk-platform claims.
The official due-diligence record connects covered product, supplier, production geography, legality evidence, risk assessment, mitigation, and statement workflows.
DHS's strategy joins entity information, product and supplier relationships, customs enforcement, and importer evidence under a legal process that software cannot decide.
