Under the Discerno project co-funded by the European Commission, CEEP together with several national partners and experts raised the question of how to evaluate CSR in public services. After much reflection and analysis, a methodology based on 6 dimensions and a set of around 50 key questions was developed.

The evaluation for the CEEP-CSR Label is structured around 6 framework dimensions: Relation with economic stakeholders, links with municipalities and other stakeholders, respect of the environment as an ecosystem, corporate governance, socially responsible behaviours and respect of international standards.

At a second stage, enterprises are asked to support their self-assessment for the evaluation with documents (exact list available here) and present their practices for evaluation by external experts. The experts will rank the Enterprise from 1 to 4 whether the enteprise is re-active or pro-active for each of the highlighted issues.

Finally, a jury will evaluate the work of the experts and assess the innovativeness of the enterprises.