Activities of Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI 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 (10)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that the economic crisis may have had an adverse impact on the way in which work is organised; calls on the Commission to use the multi- stakeholder platforms to promote efforts to find sustainable solution, with the involvement and agreement of the social partners, to promote efforts to find sustainable solutions guaranteeing full respect for the rights of workers in connection with the organisation of working time, precarious employment and equal treatment;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Agrees with the Commission communication that compliance with the relevant legislation and with collective agreements between the social partners is an essential precondition for corporate social responsibility; notes also that social responsibility necessarily involves properly conducted trade union relations, in particular respect for trade union rights, ongoing information for workers and the associations representing them and their involvement in corporate decision making;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes that, in assessing the social responsibility of a company, account must be taken of the conduct of those companies forming part of its supply chain and any subcontractors;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of introducing a European certificate of corporate social responsibility which should be recognised throughout the European Union as evidence of compliance with a number of conditions relating to various aspects of CSR based on internationally recognised principles and guidelines;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission, in particular the DG for Justice, to table proposals regarding the extraterritorial jurisdiction of EU courts in cases of human rights violations on the part of European companies or their subsidiaries, subcontractors or trading partners;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Agrees with the Commission communication that compliance with the relevant legislation and collective agreements between the social partners is an essential precondition for corporate social responsibility;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission, in particular its DG Justice, to put forward proposals for better facilitating extraterritorial jurisdiction in EU courts for egregious cases of human rights violation by EU- based businesses or their subsidiaries, subcontractors or business partners;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Welcomes the recognition of the role which must be played by public procurement in promoting CSR in practice; considers it important accordingly that measures be taken under the new directive seeking to include social and environmental factors, progress beyond the award of contracts to ‘the lowest bidder’ and make compulsory compliance with the provisions of international, European and national law and with the collective agreements applicable at the place where the works are carried out or the goods or services provided;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Considers it essential for the Commission to develop as soon as possible the announced common methodology for the measurement of environmental performance based on the life-cycle cost. Such a methodology would be useful in terms of both transparency of company information and assessment by the authorities of companies’ environmental performance;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission accordingly to propose a clear legislative framework making compulsory non-financial disclosure by major European companies and specifying the minimum amount of information which must be provided (including environmental data, taking account of life-cycle costs, social aspects, in particular respect for human rights, and governance) and the methodology; notes that information should also be given regarding subcontracting and supply chains; calls for the drafting of simplified framework provisions which may be adopted by SMEs ;