Activities of Enrique GUERRERO SALOM related to 2012/2097(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Corporate Social Responsibility: promoting society’s interests and a route to sustainable and inclusive recovery
Amendments (6)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that owing to the heterogeneity of the concept of CSR, with different companies having developed different standards on accounting, auditing and reporting, levels of CSR are hard to compare; emphasises that compulsoryinternationally agreed regulation in the context of CSR would create trust and fairness in business relations and have the benefits of certainty, progressive enforceability, universality and stakeholder empowerment;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that CSR is the best tool for companies to show their commitment, solidarity and responsibility towards society, and its also essential to achieving the objective of policy coherence for development (PCD); welcomes the Commission’s commitment to promote CSR in full consistency with current international guidelines; regrets, however, that the language of CSR is mostly voluntary;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that, as a purely voluntary commitment,even if CSR is insufficient to deal with externalities resulting from the operations of multinationals, including environmental degradation and human rights violations; reiterates its call for the establishment of legally binding obligations is a very positive first step in order to prevent them; reiterates its call for foreign investors and companies operating in developing countries to respectfully comply with international legally binding obligations regarding human rights and environmental and ILO core labour standards;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights that companies should be encouraged to implement CSR practices, moreover those which have already implemented these practices shall be encouraged to pursuit its goals; asks the Commission to consider incentives, such as priority in EU public procurement contracts, in order to make CSR seen by companies as an opportunity and not as a threat;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the way in which extractive industries operate in developing countries requires moving beyond a voluntary approach; reiterates that CSR should be applicable to all enterprises so as to create a fair and equal playing field; a legislative proposal for country-by-country reporting founded on the standards of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), reporting on sales and profits, as well as taxes and revenues, in order to discourage corruption and prevent tax avoidance; reiterates that CSR should be applicable to all enterprises so as to create a fair and equal playing field; also calls on European extractive industries operating in developing countries to set an example of social responsibility and the promotion of decent work;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that EU companies should be legally liable in their home countries for violations committed abroad by their subsidiaries and entities they controland different kinds of accountability and liability mechanisms should be implemented between them and their subsidiaries and entities they control in developing countries, also encourages the work of the EU civil society that has been actively engaged in raising awareness for violations committed by these companies abroad;