The Ethical Trading Initiatives (ETIs) welcome the effort by the EU to encourage greater effort from business in upholding human rights globally. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights...is an important international instrument to guide business in addressing actual and potential human rights abuses in their global activities. In implementing the UN Guiding Principles, the ETIs call upon the EU Commission to build on existing practices and initiatives and engage the ETIs and other multi-stakeholder initiatives in translating the principles into practice