Activities of Raffaele BALDASSARRE related to 2012/2098(INI)
Plenary speeches (3)
Corporate social responsibility: accountable, transparent and responsible business behaviour and sustainable growth (A7-0017/2013 - Raffaele Baldassarre) (vote)
Corporate social responsibility: accountable, transparent and responsible business behaviour and sustainable growth - Corporate social responsibility: promoting society's interests and a route to sustainable and inclusive recovery (debate)
Corporate social responsibility: accountable, transparent and responsible business behaviour and sustainable growth - Corporate social responsibility: promoting society's interests and a route to sustainable and inclusive recovery (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on corporate social responsibility: accountable, transparent and responsible business behaviour and sustainable growth PDF (344 KB) DOC (237 KB)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Acknowledges the importance and the potential of CSR Europe’s Enterprise 2020 initiative, which can play a substantial role in strengthening the link between CSR and competitiveness by fostering the dissemination of best practice; calls on the Commission and the Member States to foster greater synergies as regards the aim of pursuing policies and initiatives to promote social innovation and job creation; urges the Commission to support the efforts of the CSR Europe network seeking first and foremost to strengthen cooperation between business and Member States so as to lay the foundations for national action plans and the dissemination of best practice;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Draws attention to the special features of SMEs, which mainly operate at local and regional level inside specific sectors; considers it essential, therefore, for Union CSR policies, including national CSR action plans, to take proper account of the specific requirements of SMEs and, to be in keeping with the ‘think small first’ principle, and to recognise the informal, intuitive SME approach to CSR;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on public authorities to providethe Member States and regional authorities to make smart use of cohesion funding with a view to support foring CSR promotional activities carried out by SME intermediary organisations, inter alia through smart, targeted use of structurtaking their cue from, for example, the main German programme co-financed by the European Social fFunding;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to set up a database for systematic, in collaboration with Member States, SME intermediary organisations, and other stakeholders, to devise strategies and measures to help SMEs pool best CSR practice, for instance by means of a database for collection of information on CSR policies implemented by SMEs, with details of projects carried out in the various Member States, with a view to promoting the pooling of best practice;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to hold broad consultations with a view to laying down CSR strategies forand the Member States to devise development and support strategies aimed at disseminating CSR among SMEs; recommends, in particular, that specific measures should be drawn up for small and micro-enterprises;