QCEA
is involved in the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on CSR that
has been set up by the European Commission to attempt to answer
some of the questions surrounding Corporate Social Responsibility
and make recommendations to the Commission for future action. The
Forum is made up of half business representatives, a quarter trade
unionists and a quarter NGOs (including QCEA), as well as observers
from the Commission and other relevant intergovernmental organisations.
The
Forum has the dual aims of:
• Improving
knowledge about the relationship between CSR and sustainable development
by facilitating the exchange of experience and good practices and
bringing together existing CSR instruments and initiatives, with a
special emphasis on SME specific aspects;
•Exploring the appropriateness of establishing common guiding principles for CSR practices and instruments, taking into account existing EU initiatives and legislation and internationally agreed instruments.
The
European Multi-Stakeholders Forum came about as a result of two
green papers that the European Commission published:
Further information on the European
Multi-Stakeholders Forum on CSR can be obtained from the European's
Commission's Website. Because CSR is such a cross-cutting issue
the work that the Commission does on it can not be found on any
one of the Directorates Generales websites instead it is split between
the following websites:
