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The Catalan Centre for Business and Human Rights: Addressing Extraterritorial Corporate Human Rights Abuses at the Subnational Level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2023

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Daniel Iglesias Márquez*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Legal Sciences, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain Associated Researcher, Human Rights and Business Institute, University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
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Emails: danniel.iglesias@gmail.com; daniel.iglesias@urv.cat
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Abstract

This piece aims to assess the potential contribution and the scope and structure of a Catalan Centre for Business and Human Rights to supervise the fulfilment of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and to hold businesses operating in Catalonia accountable for human rights abuses within the autonomous community and abroad. It also examines how this proposal fits into the regional and national regulatory landscape for mandatory human rights due diligence.

Keywords

Cataloniaextraterritorialitylegislative proposalnon-judicial grievance mechanismssubnational public bodythird Pillar
Type
Developments in the Field
Information
Business and Human Rights Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Beyond human rights due diligence: What else do we need? , June 2023 , pp. 277 - 283
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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References

1 Márquez, Daniel Iglesias and Prandi, Maria, ‘How the Business Debate Influenced (or not) the Conflict between Catalonia and Spain’ (2018) 3:2 Business and Human Rights Journal 257–264 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Gisbert, Tomàs, Pinto, Maria Jesús and Sulé, Javier, Asedio a las comunidades los impactos de una empresa catalana, Grup TCB, en Buenaventura, Colombia (Taula Catalana per la Pau i els Drets humans a Colòmbia, 2019) 110–119 Google Scholar.

3 See ‘Resolució 359/XI del Parlament de Catalunya, sobre el respecte dels drets humans per les empreses catalanes que operen a l’exterior’, https://www.parlament.cat/getdocie/11004496 (accessed 18 March 2023).

4 de Catalunya, Generalitat, Pla Director de Cooperació al Desenvolupament 2019–2022 (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2019) 48 Google Scholar.

5 See ‘Grup Català d’empresa i drets humans’, https://alertadh.org/qui-som/ (accessed 31 March 2023).

6 A ‘proposició de llei’ is a proposal made by a parliamentary group or subgroup, a group of members of Parliament (at least five) or citizens. See article 111 of the Regulation of the Catalan Parliament.

7 Parlament de Catalunya, ‘El Ple dona via lliure a la tramitació de la proposició de llei del Centre Català d’Empresa i Drets Humans i crea una comissió d’estudi del deute de l’Estat amb Catalunya’, https://www.parlament.cat/presidencia/noticies/el-ple-dona-via-lliure-a-la-tramitacio-de-la-proposicio-de-llei-del-centre-catala-dempresa-i-drets-humans-i-crea-una-comissio-destudi-del-deute-de-lestat-amb-catalunya/ (accessed 18 March 2023). See ‘Proposició de llei de Creació del Centre Catal d’Empresa i Drets Humans’, https://www.taulacolombia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Proposició-de-llei-de-Creació-del-Centre-Català.pdf (accessed 25 March 2023). This piece is based on the content of the 2020 Legislative Proposal to create a Catalan Centre for BHR.

8 Parlament de Catalunya, ‘Proposició de llei de creació del Centre Català d’Empresa i Drets Humans’, https://www.parlament.cat/web/activitat-parlamentaria/siap/index.html?STRUTSANCHOR1=detallExpedient.do&criteri=202-00014/13 (accessed 18 March 2023). See also article 117 of the Regulation of the Catalan Parliament. All the public hearings regarding the Legislative Proposal for the Catalan Centre for BHR can be consulted via the following link: https://www.parlament.cat/ext/f?p=700:1 (accessed 25 March 2023).

9 See public hearing on the Legislative Proposal of 25 October 2022, https://www.parlament.cat/ext/f?p=700:15:0:::15,RR,RIR,CIR:P15_ID_VIDEO,P15_ID_AGRUPACIO:13804702,13090449 (accessed 25 March 2023).

10 See public hearing on the Legislative Proposal of 15 November 2022, https://www.parlament.cat/ext/f?p=700:15:0:::15,RR,RIR,CIR:P15_ID_VIDEO,P15_ID_AGRUPACIO:13878751,13090449 (accessed 25 March 2023).

11 See public hearing on the Legislative Proposal of 17 January 2023, https://www.parlament.cat/ext/f?p=700:15:0:::15,RR,RIR,CIR:P15_ID_VIDEO,P15_ID_AGRUPACIO:13878751,13090449 (accessed 25 March 2023).

12 See public hearing on the Legislative Proposal of 25 October 2022, https://www.parlament.cat/ext/f?p=700:15:0:::15,RR,RIR,CIR:P15_ID_VIDEO,P15_ID_AGRUPACIO:13804702,13090449 (accessed 25 March 2023).

13 Human Rights Council, ‘Improving accountability and access to remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuse through State-based non-judicial mechanisms’, A/HRC/38/20 (14 May 2018).

14 See article 1 of the Legislative Proposal.

15 See article 2 of the Legislative Proposal.

16 See Section 2 of the German Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains.

17 See ACCIÓ, ‘Directory of Companies in Catalonia with Subsidiaries Abroad, 2022’, https://www.accio.gencat.cat/web/.content/bancconeixement/documents/pindoles/25359-Catalanes-a-lestranger-2022_DEF_Pindola_ENG_UCOM.pdf (accessed 18 March 2023).

18 See Principle 19 of the UNGPs.

19 See public hearing on the Legislative Proposal of 29 November 2022, https://www.parlament.cat/ext/f?p=700:15:0:::15,RR,RIR,CIR:P15_ID_VIDEO,P15_ID_AGRUPACIO:13950770,13090449 (accessed 25 March 2023).

20 Antoni Pigrau Solé et al, ‘Proposta d’un codi ètic de respecte dels drets humans i de la igualtat de gènere per a la internacionalització responsable de les empreses catalanes’, http://cooperaciocatalana.gencat.cat/web/.content/Documents/20161121_Proposta-de-Codi-etic.pdf (accessed 18 March 2023).

21 See Article 5 of the Legislative Proposal.

22 See Principle 31 of the UNGPs.

23 See Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, de Régimen Jurídico del Sector Público, BOE núm. 236, 2 October 2015.

24 See Article 3 of the Legislative Proposal.

25 Ministerio de Derechos Sociales y Agenda 2030, ‘Estrategia de Desarrollo Sostenible 2030. Un Proyecto de País para Hacer Realidad la Agenda 2030’, https://www.mdsocialesa2030.gob.es/agenda2030/documentos/eds-cast-acce.pdf (accessed 18 March 2023), 198.

26 Plataforma por las Empresas Responsables, ‘Hacia una ley de Debida Diligencia en derechos humanos y medioambientales en España’, https://empresasresponsables.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Propuesta_tecnica_PER_enero2022.docx.pdf (accessed 18 March 2023), 11.