Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 prohibits products made with forced labour from being placed or made available on the EU market or exported from the EU. CommonShare helps teams map product supply chains, screen risk signals, preserve due-diligence evidence, manage investigations, and coordinate corrective action.
At a glance
Reviewed against official primary sources on 5 August 2026.
Jurisdiction
European Union
Status
In force · product prohibition applies from 14 December 2027
Who it affects
Economic operators placing, making available, or exporting products, regardless of sector or product origin
Products & scope
Products of any type, including components and products offered through distance sales into the EU
Key dates
Entered into force 13 Dec 2024 · principal product prohibition and investigation rules apply 14 Dec 2027
Authority
EU Member State competent authorities and the European Commission
Product prohibition and investigation
Know which products depend on which production conditions.
The Regulation is product- and investigation-focused. Map the affected supply chain, preserve effective due-diligence evidence, and connect authority questions to specific products and production steps.
Map the product supply chain
Connect products and components to suppliers, facilities, production steps, workers, regions, and transactions relevant to forced-labour risk.
Prioritize substantiated risk
Use available risk information, scale, severity, and supply chain location to focus enhanced evidence collection.
Demonstrate effective due diligence
Maintain policies, assessments, supplier engagement, prevention, mitigation, remediation, and outcome records.
Respond to information requests
Coordinate timely, product-specific evidence when a competent authority conducts a preliminary assessment or investigation.
Control affected products
Connect decisions to holds, withdrawal, remediation, disposal, or other required actions without losing the evidence trail.
Regulatory workflow in practice
Move from scope to a governed outcome.
Map the relevant records, collect evidence, review gaps, and release an approved outcome with a complete history.
- EU Forced Labour RegulationMap the product supply chain
- Operational evidencePrioritize substantiated risk
- CommonShareConnect obligations to owned action.
- AuthorityDemonstrate effective due diligence
- Team ownershipRespond to information requests
01 ScopeOpen the relevant requirement02 ConnectGather identity and evidence03 AssessCheck, calculate, and route04 DecideKeep human authority05 DemonstrateIssue and reuse the outcome
Map the product supply chain
Map products and production relationships, screen risk signals, preserve due-diligence evidence, and coordinate corrective action.
- Input
- Economic operators placing, making available, or exporting products
- Decision or control
- Translate applicable requirements into a managed process while keeping legal judgement with the responsible team.
- Handoff
- Prioritize substantiated risk · Operational evidence
- Map the product supply chainEU Forced Labour Regulation
See how CommonShare connects products, partners, evidence, calculations, and accountable decisions in one governed operating model.
Operational evidence
Build the product-level record behind every forced-labour response.
Connect supply chain structure, risk signals, supplier responses, worker-related evidence, actions, decisions, and authority correspondence without reducing the analysis to a generic supplier score.
- 01
Product, component, supplier, facility, production-step, country, and region relationships
- 02
Transaction, purchase-order, shipment, batch, and EU market-role records
- 03
Forced-labour indicators, screening sources, risk assessments, and prioritization rationale
- 04
Worker, recruitment, grievance, audit, and stakeholder information where lawfully collected
- 05
Supplier responses, policies, prevention, mitigation, remediation, and corrective actions
- 06
Authority correspondence, investigation scope, decisions, product holds, and release approvals
CommonShare support
Turn fragmented forced-labour evidence into an investigation-ready record.
CommonShare connects multi-tier mapping, screening, collaborative data requests, document history, cases, corrective actions, escalations, and approvals. Authorized authorities and legal teams retain legal findings.
Product-to-production mapping
Trace finished products and components through suppliers, facilities, regions, and transactions.
Risk and watchlist screening
Connect risk signals and external sources to affected partners, locations, products, and cases.
Investigation evidence room
Assemble versioned documents, responses, translations, decisions, and approvals around the product under review.
Corrective-action control
Assign prevention, mitigation, remediation, escalation, hold, and approval workflows with a complete audit trail.
CommonShare operational view
Trade and market access
Trade compliance, human rights, legal, and sourcing
- 01Map
- 02Screen
- 03Investigate
- 04Control
Team ownership
Connect human-rights diligence to trade decisions.
Trade compliance
Product-level evidence ready before an authority request becomes a border crisis.
Human rights
Due-diligence actions connected to actual products and production relationships.
Sourcing
Clear supplier requests, escalations, and corrective-action ownership.
Legal
A governed investigation record with facts, decisions, versions, and approvals.
Frequently asked
EU forced-labour scope, investigations, and product evidence
The Regulation entered into force on 13 December 2024. Its principal product-prohibition and investigation provisions apply from 14 December 2027, while specified institutional provisions applied earlier.
Official primary sources
Verify scope against the current rules.
Last reviewed: 5 August 2026
Applicability note
Confirm applicability against current legal text and implementing measures for your company role, products, transactions, and facts.
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