Paris asked the European Union on Friday to indefinitely suspend new regulations requiring large corporations to identify and address environmental or human rights impacts in their supply chains.

PARIS/BRUSSELS — France is pushing to delay EU rules requiring companies to report on their environmental footprint and exposure to climate risk and to check that their suppliers comply with environmental and forced labor rules.

Bankers and regulators expect the European Union to further delay stricter capital standards for lenders’ trading businesses over uncertainty related to whether the US will implement the rules.