21 Amendments of Malika BENARAB-ATTOU related to 2012/2097(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Encourages the EU as well as Member States to provide concrete information on, and education and training in CSR, in order for enterprises to take full advantage of CSR and be able to implement it in their organisational culture; points out and regrets however that the language of CSR is still mostly voluntary;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises that, as a purely voluntary commitment, CSR is insufficient to deal with externalities resulting from the operations of multinationals, including environmental, social and human rights violations; reiterates its call for the establishment of legally binding obligations for investors, especially those operating in developing countries, to respect cultural diversity, human rights, environmental and social standards;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas corporate social responsibility (CSR) must not be used to redefine internationally agreed minimum applicable standards but to seek better to understand and implement, monitor the way in which these are directly applicable to business;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. EStresses that CSR shall apply to the entire global supply chain of a company, and therefore shall built up trust and fairness, aim at empowering all stakeholders; encourages Member States to integrate CSR into relevant education curricula;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages enterprises to promote creativity and cultural projects within their CSR policies, in the context of civic commitment, and to stimulate growth and job creationas issues of prime importance in a context of changing society and work methods, also in terms of civic commitment;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), as part of the implementation process of CRS in investment decisions, shall combine investors' financial and economic objectives with their social, environmental, ethical, cultural and educational issues;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Encourages the Member States and the Union to take into consideration for their CSR agenda that the cultural and creative SMEs can have a significant impact on social and environmental change, inducing long term solutions to combat poverty in giving new impulses to the labour market and integrating social consideration;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Agrees, nevertheless, with the analysis set out in the communication to the effect that CSR practices are still largely confined to a minority of big companies; stresses that regulation of all entities would create trust and fairness while strengthening monitoring and implementation;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that future key drivers for ‘scaling up’ CSR will include an emphasis on global CSR instruments, fresh momentum from leading businesses among their peers, the use of appropriate guided by company disclosure of social and environmental information, the use of binding regulation, a robust impact analysis of existing CSR initiatives, and increasing recognition within both the business community and wider society of the scale of global social and environmental challenges;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Restates its belief in the ‘business case’ for CSR, but reiterates that, where such a case does not apply in the short term in any given situation or company, it can never be used as an excuse for choosing irresponsibility and that commitments should be monitored while providing for an effective accountability mechanism for dealing with non-compliance;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recognises that a deep flaw in CSR initiatives arises when companies avoid critical interest groups or sensitive issues relevant to their business and their global supply chain; calls on the Commission, working with financial authorities, to build on the previous work of CSR ‘laboratories’ in order better to identify how companies and their stakeholders can objectively pinpoint social and environmental issues which are ‘material’ to the business in question;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Strongly supports the recognition, in the Commission communication, that ‘'helping to mitigate the social effects of the current crisis’' and finding sustainable business models is part of the social responsibility of enterprises; calls on businesses to undertake initiatives for youth job creation as a practical example of their commitment;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recognises that business closures and retrenchment are jeopardising some of the gains made through CSR in terms of the employment of marginalisedvulnerable groups in society such as persons with disabilities; calls on the Commission to undertake a major analysis of the social impact of the crisis on such initiatives;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Emphasises that integration of environmental concerns such as biodiversity, climate change, resource efficiency, environmental health of the CSR into business operations offers potential to promote a sustainable recovery;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Insists that all ‘finance for trade and development’ offered to private-sector actors by EU investment facilities, the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development should include contractual clauses requiring compliance with the OECD Guidelines and the UN Guiding Principles and that provision should be made for their monitoring and accountability mechanisms for dealing with non-compliance;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative on national action plans for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles; calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) to play a far greater role in helping to lead implementation at a senior level and in encouraging an effective monitoring and reporting; calls for a ‘peer review process’ between Member States in order to advance implementation;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes that the ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards as one-stop shop for managers could serve as baseline indicators for effective CSR reporting;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that a key driver of the socially and sustainably responsible investment market remains institutional investor demand; notes, in this vein, that disclosure is a key driver of CSR and must be principles-based;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Agrees that there cannot be a ‘'one size fits all’' approach to CSR but, recognising that the profusion of private and voluntary initiatives can generate additional costs and be a barrier to implementation undermining trust and fairness, calls on the Commission, together with other international bodies, to make a commitment to supporting the long-term objective of ‘'convergence’' of binding CSR initiatives;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recognises that the Laeken Declaration in 2001 points out that the EU institutions need to be brought closer to the Unions citizens;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Supports the development of the 'Solidarité proposal' for an inter- institutional human resources programme in the EU Institutions to facilitate the involvement of the Institutions' staff and trainees in community engagement through benevolent humanitarian and positive social activities, both as part of staff training and volunteering in their own time.