The voluntary approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) adopted by the European Commission since its 2001 Green paper proves to combine with a number of supporting and/or regulatory measures adopted by private entities and public Institutions, both at national and EU level. Within the concept of “regulated voluntarism” gathered from this approach, the present paper closely examines the three Communications of the Commission on CSR in order to understand the evolving role acknowledged to public authorities and goes through the main statutory provisions adopted by the EU in implementation of such role, including the EMAS and Ecolabel regulations, Directive 2004/18/EC on public procurement, and the current and forthcoming rules on social and environmental reporting by companies. The resulting picture is a fragmentary one, where the room left to voluntarism varies a great deal and the relation between the protection of the (internal) market and the noneconomic interests underlying CSR is often controversial.
Il volontarismo regolamentato nell'azione europea a sostegno della responsabilità sociale d'impresa
PISTOIA, Emanuela
2013-01-01
Abstract
The voluntary approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) adopted by the European Commission since its 2001 Green paper proves to combine with a number of supporting and/or regulatory measures adopted by private entities and public Institutions, both at national and EU level. Within the concept of “regulated voluntarism” gathered from this approach, the present paper closely examines the three Communications of the Commission on CSR in order to understand the evolving role acknowledged to public authorities and goes through the main statutory provisions adopted by the EU in implementation of such role, including the EMAS and Ecolabel regulations, Directive 2004/18/EC on public procurement, and the current and forthcoming rules on social and environmental reporting by companies. The resulting picture is a fragmentary one, where the room left to voluntarism varies a great deal and the relation between the protection of the (internal) market and the noneconomic interests underlying CSR is often controversial.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
