Social and Environmental Reporting

Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:49

A new Social project for the European Leather Industry (2008-2009) 

On 27 November, the European social partners, COTANCE and ETUF:TCL, held the Kick-off meeting of their new common Social project. Indeed, in June 2008 they signed the Framework Agreement on Social (and Environmental) Reporting and decided that this Common standard needed to be:

1. translated in all Community languages
2. promoted in the industry in all Member States
3. tested by the sector’s Companies

In the course of this EU-sponsored project, which started on 1st November 2008 and will last one year, the Framework Agreement will be translated in the various EU languages and provided to the sector’s companies, of which the majority are SME’s, together with a Template to make it easier for them to draft their Social Report and Environmental Declaration on a voluntary basis.
The Framework Agreement will also be printed in a multi-lingual (4-5 languages to be decided) handy brochure as a dissemination tool for the sector’s SME’s so that the most dynamic sector’s companies can provide it to their stakeholders along with their own company Report.