Press Release: Corporate Social Responsibility : new European Commission strategy to promote business contribution to sustainable development

The European Commission published a Communication on Corporate Social Responsibility on 2 July 2002. The policy paper calls for a new social and environmental rôle for business in a global economy and sets up a 'European Multi-Stakeholder Forum' for all players social partners, business networks, civil society, consumers and investors to exchange best practice, to establish principles for codes of conduct and to seek consensus on objective evaluation methods and validation tools such as 'social labels'.

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/employment_social/soc-dial/csr/csr2002_en.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/comm/employment_social/soc-dial/csr/csr2002_en.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/employment_social/soc-dial/csr/csr_index.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/employment_social/soc-dial/csr/csr_index.htm

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