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"Mr President, corporate social responsibility is a policy concept whereby businesses self-regulate in order to operate in an ethical and sustainable manner in order to understand and meet the needs and expectations of all stakeholders. In this report, however, this concept has been transformed into a jumble of slogans and key words seemingly intended to tick all the right boxes without explaining how exactly anything is to be actually achieved.
The concept of self-regulation has gone from this report and has seemingly been replaced by vague calls for Commission strategies, Commission guidelines, even concrete proposals from the Commission for the implementation of corporate socially responsible practices. The rapporteur – even if now he wants businesses, enterprises, to be responsible for solving social issues caused by the economic crisis – believes that the economic crisis has shaken employees’ faith in corporations to meet their pension obligations. No, Mr Howitt, it is the EU and the eurozone crisis that has done that.
This report flits from subcontracting to low carbon technology and to gender equality in the blink of an eye. The rapporteur calls for the launch of a new EU initiative on advancing materiality. He wants the EU to back a proposal for a UN convention on corporate responsibility. More bureaucracy is the last thing that businesses need at this time. The report refers to short-term thinking in Brussels in one breath and with the next it calls on the Commission to show leadership. It takes a concept based on self-regulation by wide, diverse and economic actions in 27 Member States and seeks to turn it into an EU competence where one size will not fit at all. It reads like a student manifesto, a first-year student manifesto."@en1
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