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 "title": "Does Traceability Prove Supply-Chain Due Diligence?",
 "description": "Understand why supply-chain traceability can support due diligence without replacing risk assessment, mitigation and other regime-specific due-diligence duties.",
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 "direct_answer": "**No. A supply chain can be highly traceable and still fail a due-diligence test. Traceability can support due diligence, and it does not by itself prove that the due-diligence process required by a particular regime has been completed.**",
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   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Battery passport Articles 77-78",
   "legislationDate": "2023-07-12"
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   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 - EUDR",
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   "name": "OECD, Comparative analysis of due diligence requirements: Mapping social and environmental due diligence legislation (2026)"
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  {
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