{"id":12612,"date":"2014-08-12T08:23:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T08:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/s1-advancing-the-right-to-know\/c44-business-transparency\/12612"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:11:44","slug":"csr-nonfinancial-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/2014-08-12\/csr-nonfinancial-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil society urge EU to push for more transparency in non-financial reports by business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Madrid, 11 August 2014 <\/em>\u2013 Access Info Europe highlighted the need for further access to information around the non-financial reporting of companies as part of a European Commission survey on corporate social responsibility.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"jce_file\" title=\"Civil society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corporatejustice.org\/\">Civil society<\/a> has emphasised the lack of regulation in this area, and stressed the need for more transparency and accountability regarding the impact of business actions on trade, the environment, development and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission is looking to receive feedback on the implementation of its most recent policy on corporate social responsibility, which is outlined in \u00abA renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility\u00bb (COM(2011) 681).<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\">[1]\n<p>Open to the public, it is an opportunity for citizens to highlight the need for further transparency and accountability in the areas of corporate reporting, tax and public procurement.<\/p>\n<p>You can participate in the consultation by filling in the survey, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eusurvey\/runner\/CSR-Survey-2014\">http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eusurvey\/runner\/CSR-Survey-2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notes<\/p>\n[1] \u00abA renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility\u00bb (COM(2011) 681).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"jce_file\" title=\"http:\/\/www.access-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/act_en.pdf \" href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/enterprise\/policies\/sustainable-business\/files\/csr\/new-csr\/act_en.pdf\">http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/enterprise\/policies\/sustainable-business\/files\/csr\/new-csr\/act_en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n[3] <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/enterprise\/policies\/sustainable-business\/corporate-social-responsibility\/multi-stakeholder-forum\/index_en.htm\">http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/enterprise\/policies\/sustainable-business\/corporate-social-responsibility\/multi-stakeholder-forum\/index_en.htm<\/a><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid, 11 August 2014 \u2013 Access Info Europe highlighted the need for further access to information around the non-financial reporting of companies as part of a European Commission survey on corporate social responsibility. Civil society has emphasised the lack of regulation in this area, and stressed the need for more transparency and accountability regarding the impact of business actions on trade, the environment, development and human rights. The Commission is looking to receive feedback on the implementation of its most recent policy on corporate social responsibility, which is outlined in \u00abA renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility\u00bb (COM(2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28489,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions\/28489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}