| WHY HAVE AN ETHICAL MANAGEMENT? Interview with Mr Caspar EINEM, President of CEEP and Mr. Massimo MASSELLA, President of ARAN & of CEEP-IT Read interview…
By Enzo Avanzi, CEEP Italy ------------------------------------------------------------ ONLINE SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL This new tool is a questionnaire based on specific guidelines of the “Discerno Plus - CEEP-CSR Label: Guidelines for the evaluation of best practice” and is also based on the AEI Standard Ethics EIEG methodology. The principle of this tool is to test, evaluate and examine the degree of Corporate Social Responsibility of your company. Read more…
------------------------------------------------------------ Discerno II active stage launched in France The 2 French partners of the Discerno + project CEEP France and the Fédération des Sem, invited their members to an information meeting last 6 December in Paris. Public SMEs involved in the works of the various sectors such as housing, urban development, transport, waste or “parking” were present. Their representatives unanimously stressed that in a more and more competitive context, obtaining a label regarding corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) will rapidly become unavoidable for public SME. Many of those enterprises are already active in the field of CSR, and for others Discerno is a good opportunity to get on the board. Many participants asked for the indicators to be simple, more “qualitative” than “quantitative”, and more transversal than sectoral. Most of those enterprises declared themselves ready to participate from January 2008 to the online questionnaire, in order to be able to be candidate for the attribution of the label. By CEEP France | Fédération des Sem ------------------------------------------------------------ CSR according to Professor Barbara Kudrycka – Minister of Science and Higher Education, ex - President of Stanislaw Staszic School of Public Administration in Bialystok, ex-Member of the European Parliament. Read interview…
By PEPA ------------------------------------------------------------ EVERYBODY SPEAKS ABOUT CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) – LOCAL UTILITIES PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. The Association of Local Utilities: Verband Kommunaler Unternehmen e.V. (VKU) and the German Association of Towns and Municipalities | Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund (DStGB) are involved in the “Discerno II” project since December 2006. | In their point of view it is essential to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within state and local authority owned companies and enterprises of general interest as they represent about 16% of the EU economy in terms of salaries and final products. Read more…
By VKU | DStGB ------------------------------------------------------------ DISCERNO, A REAL INTEREST FROM THE ENTERPRISES OF CONFSERVIZI Confservizi organised a seminar for its members on quality and CSR in Rome on the 14th of November 2007. Around a hundred managers attended this seminar. A lot of very interesting testimonies and analysis were presented by experts, university teachers and enterprises managers. All the statements expressed a common view: local utilities are improving their services. The best quality for users and customers is a permanent daily action of these enterprises and also the true basis of a good CSR policy. Read more… By Confservizi ------------------------------------------------------------
Background & reading material on Corporate Social Responsibility
------------------------------------------------------------ COMMISSION COMMUNICATION ON CSR Corporate Social Responsibility: A business contribution to Sustainable Development: COM(2002) 347 final Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee - Implementing the partnership for growth and jobs: making Europe a pole of excellence on corporate social responsibility:
COM/2006/0136 final COMMISSION CSR POLICY Making Europe a Pole of Excellence on CSR
A new communication on CSR entitled “Implementing the Partnership for Growth and Jobs: Making Europe a pole of excellence on CSR”:
COM(2006)136 final EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REPORT On corporate social responsibility: a new partnership - 2006/2133(INI) ------------------------------------------------------------ EVENT – Results & reports December 7th, 2007
Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility: CSR at the global level: what role for the EU? ------------------------------------------------------------ LINKS: European Commission, Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities The European Parliament resolution Confrontations Europe Interface The European Multi-Stakeholder Forum |
