{"id":184266,"date":"2024-11-09T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-small-businesses-want-support-for-eu-due-diligence-compliance\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T16:33:41","slug":"namibia-small-businesses-want-support-for-eu-due-diligence-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-small-businesses-want-support-for-eu-due-diligence-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Small Businesses Want Support for EU Due Diligence Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Small and medium-sized Namibian businesses are concerned about additional costs associated with compliance with the European Union&#8217;s (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Representatives of such enterprises voiced these concerns during a panel discussion at the Namibia-EU Trade and Sustainability Conference in Windhoek on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Justus Tjituka of the Namibia Indigenous Communities Charcoal Association said that indigenous charcoal producers must receive the same kind of support&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411080461.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small and medium-sized Namibian businesses are concerned about additional costs associated with compliance with the European Union&#8217;s (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. Representatives of such enterprises voiced these concerns during a panel discussion at the Namibia-EU Trade and Sustainability Conference in Windhoek on Thursday. Justus Tjituka of the Namibia Indigenous Communities Charcoal Association said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6817,12426,15089,6605,4706,724,257,10046,254,6096],"class_list":["post-184266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-businesses","tag-compliance","tag-diligence","tag-due","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-small","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}