2 Amendments of Cristian Dan PREDA related to 2012/2097(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Requests that where the EU or Member States are partners of business (e.g. in public procurement, state-owned enterprises, joint ventures, ‘blending’, export credit guarantees, large scale projects in third countries), consistency with the UN Guiding Principles should be a priority, reflected in specific contractual clauses, and with consequences for companies blatantly violating human rights; recommends that the envisaged ‘'EU Platform for External Cooperation and Development’' establish such modalities meant to improve the quality and efficiency of EU external cooperation blending mechanisms and financial instruments and the cooperation and coordination between the EU, Financial Institutions and other stakeholders in this field;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Acknowledges that grievances against EU companies operating abroad are often more usefully solved in situ; commends the OECD National Contact Points as state- based non-legal mechanisms that can mediate over a broad range of business and human rights disputes; calls, however, for a greater effort by companies in developing grievance mechanisms aligned with the effectiveness criteria stated in the Guiding Principles and to seek further authoritative guidance provided by internationally recognised principles and guidelines, in particular the recently updated OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact, the ISO 26000 Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility, the ILO Tri-partite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy;