The European Union welcomed the ongoing international debate on corporate social responsibility, business ethics, accountability and transparency.

14. Reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

12. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

11. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

The importance of ensuring corporate social responsibility and accountability, including with regard to the rights of workers, was also stressed.

(a) To identify and clarify standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights

Greater corporate accountability should not be restricted to the environment and labor standards but also take into account the full panoply of human rights.

The OCG has since made significant progress in fostering the principles of good corporate governance, with particular emphasis on the concepts of integrity and accountability.

Urges UNDP and UNFPA to base their oversight and accountability activities on a corporate risk model and develop risk assessment functions in their audit offices

Discussions focused on how ISAR could contribute to the improvement of corporate governance practices in member States and on how it could assist developing countries and economies in transition in identifying and implementing best corporate governance practices to achieve better transparency and accountability.

Monitoring of progress at all levels of action will be needed on the basis of criteria of corporate responsibility and accountability developed from a human rights perspective.

Whereas the corporate world perceives the rules as a restraint it could do without in a competitive setting, public administration accountability is generally monitored against specified legal provisions.

16. Also stresses the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability, including through the full development and effective implementation of intergovernmental agreements and measures, international initiatives and public private partnerships, and appropriate national regulations, and to support continuous improvement in corporate practices in all countries

11. Stresses the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability, including through the full development and effective implementation of intergovernmental agreements and measures, international initiatives and public private partnerships and appropriate national regulations, and to support continuous improvement in corporate practices in all countries

Furthermore, it was important to consider the framework of corporate accountability and to examine the relationship between voluntary and regulatory approaches so as to ascertain the complementarities between them.

Promoting corporate responsibility and accountability and the exchange of best practices, as well as the active involvement of civil society, are also important aspects of building stable policy and institutional frameworks.

Grundsatzkommission Corporate Governance (German Panel for Corporate Governance) (2000). Corporate Governance Rules for German Quoted Companies.

The report does not provide any proposals for addressing the problems arising from the export of polluting technologies from developed to developing countries, the conduct of transnational companies and the issue of corporate responsibility and accountability.

Statement on Global Corporate Governance Principles. International Corporate Governance Network.

Revised Statement on Global Corporate Governance Principles. International Corporate Governance Network.

Finance Committee on Corporate Governance (2000). Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance.

Accountability

Accountability

Corporate Governance Committee (2004). The Belgian Code on Corporate Governance ('Lippens Code')

Committee on Corporate Governance (1999). Code of Best Practice for Corporate Governance.

Corporate strategy

Corporate responsibility

5. Reaffirms the commitment to make the fight against corruption a priority at all levels, and welcomes all actions taken in this regard at the national and international levels, including the adoption of policies that emphasize accountability, transparent public sector management and corporate responsibility and accountability, including efforts to return assets transferred through corruption, consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption

Reaffirms the commitment to make the fight against corruption a priority at all levels, and welcomes all actions taken in this regard at the national and international levels, including the adoption of policies that emphasize accountability, transparent public sector management and corporate responsibility and accountability, including efforts to return assets transferred through corruption, consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption

Corporate leaders realized that economic incentives accrued from being a good corporate citizen.

I also note with satisfaction the comments made by the External Auditor, in his interim report, that OCG has made significant progress in fostering the principles of good corporate governance, with particular emphasis on the concepts of integrity and accountability.

Ms. Shestack (United States of America), explaining her delegation's position on the draft resolution and drawing attention to the reference to the need to take concrete actions on corporate responsibility and accountability, including for the prevention or prosecution of corruption (para.

Accountability framework

Committee on Corporate Governance (1997). Corporate Governance in the Netherlands Forty Recommendations (Peters Code).

European Corporate Governance Institute. (In particular, see index of corporate governance codes by country.

Corporate specific reasons.

Recognizing further the role played by the private sector and civil society including non governmental organizations in supporting the efforts of Governments to achieve sustainable development and, in this regard, reiterating the need for enhancing corporate environmental and social responsibility and accountability,

(c) Accountability framework.

The accountability framework

E. Accountability mechanisms

Accountability and oversight

Autonomy and accountability

Accountability and transparency

Transparency and accountability ___________

Accountability and incentives