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This resolution urges the United States to reject compliance with the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), a new Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) law that would require large businesses to impose strict sustainability and social standards on companies within their "chain of activities," even those without direct EU operations. The resolution highlights the CSDDD's wide-ranging requirements, which include mandates related to unions, healthcare, children's education, green energy transition, climate policies, and social justice, with potential financial penalties of at least 5% of a company's worldwide net turnover for non-compliance. The resolution argues that the directive could allow activist groups to sue companies and potentially force businesses to end relationships with partners who cannot meet EU standards, and it warns that if the United States does not resist these requirements, it could become effectively controlled by EU corporate regulations. The resolution calls for the New Hampshire legislature's clerk to distribute copies of this resolution to key federal and state government officials, requesting their cooperation in rejecting the CSDDD's implementation.

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https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=660&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025&txtbillnumber=HCR9