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GRI financial services sector supplement was published

October 27, 2008 · Filed under news · Tagged , , , ,

A short but very actual notice.

After a 5 year process, the Financial Services Sector Supplement (FSSS) is now finalized.At this moments of financial crisis, disclosure standards in the financial services sector are more than welcomed.

The Financial Services Sector Supplement was developed in several stages, the development of social
indicators, environmental indicators, and then the merging of these indicator sets and their alignment
with the G3 Guidelines.

The financial sector was segmented into four categories for the purposes of developing this Sector Supplement: retail banking, commercial and corporate banking, asset management and insurance.

The Financial Services Sector Supplement includes:

G3 Indicator Protocol Economic FSSS Final (PDF)
G3 Indicator Protocol Environmental FSSS Final (PDF)
G3 Indicator Protocol Human Rights FSSS Final (PDF)
G3 Indicator Protocol Product Responsibility FSSS Final (PDF)
G3 Indicator Protocol Product & Service FSSS Final (PDF)
G3 Indicator Protocol Society FSSS Final (PDF)

Reporting Guidelines & FSSS Final (PDF)

More information at: www.globalreporting.org.

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International Regulatory Reform Conference

October 26, 2008 · Filed under news · Tagged , , , , ,

The International Regulatory Reform Conference is organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation in Berlin between 16-18 of November.

Even though it is not an event dedicated to CSR, it touches very important regulatory issues which are relevant to the CSR debate, too.

The aim of the conference is:

1.To bring together leading experts on regulation and regulatory quality
2. To provide an international overview of current developments in the area
of regulatory reform
3. To share best practices in the area of regulatory reform in a systematic
and efficient way.

The conference will offer 20 sessions in the following five parallel work streams:
1. Going Beyond Red Tape
2. Measuring Regulatory Quality
3. Delivering Regulatory Quality
4. Risk, Regulation and International Cooperation
5. Regional Approaches to Better Regulation

The session will focus on the following topics:

What does business want from regulatory reform?

Transparency and public participation in the regulatory process?

Changing trends in better regulation – Views from Europe and the United States

The current state of European self- and co-regulation

Regulatory governance in developing countries

Regulatory reform in South Korea and Japan: Deregulation and social regulations

Risk regulation in an interconnected world.

More information at: IRR-conference@bertelsmann.de

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