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"The Commission takes the issue of child labour very seriously. In June, the ILO indicated that some 200 million children work. Although there is a downward trend, which is encouraging, that is still 200 million too many children who are working when they should be receiving an education.
It is important to realise, however, that only around 5% of these children work in export-oriented sectors. According to ILO data, the vast majority work in subsistence farming or as domestic workers.
That is why the EU tackles child labour through a comprehensive policy approach that focuses on its root causes: poverty and a lack of access to quality education.
This approach was set out in this January’s Commission Staff Working Document on Combating Child Labour, which was endorsed by the Council on 14 June. I refer you to both documents for more specific details about that policy approach and its future development.
Taken together, these actions contribute to the internationally agreed goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016 and eventually ending all forms of child labour.
Many EU companies, including SMEs, subscribe to corporate social responsibility schemes, through which they undertake to ensure that child and forced labour are not used in their supply chain. The Commission is currently exploring ways of better integrating human rights issues into EU corporate social responsibility policy.
In addition, SMEs can make use of a number of private sustainability assurance schemes operating within the EU, which, depending on the criteria utilised by the scheme in question, may require that child and forced labour are not used in the production of goods and services bearing the label associated with that scheme."@en1
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