5 Amendments of Ska KELLER related to 2012/2098(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Agrees that current environmental and climate change imperatives and the development of global production chains demand a broader CSR concept coverage than envisaged when the concept was first conceived; hence considers necessary to spell out an updated CSR concept, relating to labour and human rights and employment issues, as well as to environmental protection, climate change concerns, and avoidance of corruption and tax evasion;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asks the Commission to include a binding CSR clause in all bilateral trade and investment agreements signed by the EU, on the basis of principles of CSR as defined and acknowledged at the international level; suggests that this clause contain measures for the implementation of these principlesunifies the existing variety of different standards and concepts in order to ensure comparability, fairness and trust, and that it contains measures for the implementation and regular objective monitoring of these principles and measures that insure better compliance; suggests to revise existing agreements with the purpose to add such a CSR clause where lacking;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers the "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework", or so called Ruggie Framework, endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council on 16 June 2011, as the most comprehensive and innovative framework, to be enshrined in EU trade agreements with third countries;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the EEAS to ensure that EU trade officers, if based in EU embassies, enjoy a regular training on CSR issues, in particular with respect to the implementation of UN "Protect, Respect and Remedy" principles; that EU embassies function as EU Contact Points for complaints concerning EU companies and their subsidiaries, since OECD National Contact Points only exist in OECD adhering countries and therefore are not accessible in practice for concerned workers affected in countries outside the OECD;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that awareness rising for the importance of CSR and the consequences of non compliance at corporate level, as a task for the EU Commission, must be accompanied by adequate awareness and capacity building at the level of host country governments, to effectively ensure the implementation of CSR rights and access to justice;