[NOTE: the link connects to letter from Government of Greece attaching the full text of "EU Reply to the OHCHR Questionnaire on Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Related Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights"]...the prime responsibility and duty to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms lay with States...Nevertheless, the EU also reiterates that according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights every individual and every organ of society is under a responsibility to strive for the promotion and observance of human rights...This would involve at least the responsibility for companies to ensure that they are not in any way complicit in human rights abuses.