Italy

IV. Government responses

Current Activities and Future Commitments [page 21]

B. Operational Principles

The State-business nexus 

Guiding Principle 5

Italy is committed to ensure that business enterprises that:… ii) receive support, benefit from services from Government agencies…, operate in full compliance with human rights enshrined in domestic legislation, international regulations and standards, and soft law instruments.

Planned Measures [page 22] 

To achieve the goals set in Principles…5…, and within the overall framework of the implementation of EU directives, the Italian Government will conduct the following activities to be jointly developed and monitored by CIDU and A.N.AC:

• Elaborate within the CIDU the concept of a ‘human rights clause’ to be included as a requirement for competing enterprises in all public model tenders and agreements with business enterprises for the purchase of goods and provision of services, with particular focus on i) enterprises operating abroad; ii) enterprises availing themselves of foreign suppliers; iii) foreign enterprises.