Activities of Paul MURPHY related to 2012/2097(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Corporate Social Responsibility: promoting society’s interests and a route to sustainable and inclusive recovery PDF (386 KB) DOC (266 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Corporate Social Responsibility: promoting society’s interests and a route to sustainable and inclusive recovery
Amendments (4)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets that the Commission has not yet drawn up concrete proposals on the implementation of CSR principles in EU trade policy and stresses that CSR, both within the EU and in third countries, should be extended to address areas such as the organisation of work, equal opportunities, social inclusion, anti- discrimination and continuous education and training;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Commits itself to step up its efforts continually so that EU institutions and officials, including the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, are required to enforce social, environmental and human rights standards in all EU external relations and actions;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Undertakes to place the corporate social responsibility issue on the agendas of all future EU meetings with third countries, especially with privileged relations partners, and calls for corporate social and environmental responsibility to be integrated into contractual relations between the EU and third countries;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a system of legal cooperation to be set up between the EU and third countries signatories to bilateral trade agreements, to ensure effective access to justice for victims in the event of; further calls on the EU and the Member States, with regard to breaches of corporate social responsibility including breaches of social orand environmental legislation by multinationals or failure to honour CSR undertakings, to adopt binding rules on the protection of the fundamental rights to effective legal remedies and access to an impartial and independent court, and refers in particular to Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in which these rights are enshrined;