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ISO 26000 - Social

Responsibility

SIS - Swedish Standards Institute

Stockholm 2006-02-24

Kristina Sandberg, SISSecretariat of ISO/TMB/WG Social Responsibility


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ISO in brief

International Organization for Standardization

Federation of National

Standards Bodies,one per country

Created in 1946

Currently almost 15.000valid ISO standards

Head office in Geneva

146 members (110 fromdeveloping countries)


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ISO SR - Short history (1) May 2001 - May 2002: the ISO committee for consumer

issues (COPOLCO) performed a Feasibility Study for CSR

standards. September 2002 - April 2004: Strategic Advisory Group

on Social Responsibility investigated the issue


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ISO SR - Short history (2) June 2004: ISO Conference on Social Responsibility

in Stockholm (>300 participants)

September 2004: The leadership responsibilityassigned to SIS and ABNT (Brazil)

January 2005: Vote on the proposed standard closed -ISO Working group (WG) established.


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Why is ISO developing an SR

standard?

Arent there enough models, theories,

initiatives and conventions?

WBCSD, WEF on Corruption, OECD

Guidelines, ISO 14000, OHSAS 18001, GlobalCompact, GRI, TI, Amnesty Business Group,IFBWW, ILO, Fair Trade, SA 8000, FSC, AA1000...


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Because... There is a potential and a need for increased

awareness in the area of Social

Responsibility. We lack one internationally broadly accepted

guideline.

A standard could foster greater awarenessand wider observance of agreed sets ofuniversal principles.

ISO has the experiences and the open andneutral organization to ensure a broadacceptance of the future standard.


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ISO standards are crucial to

sustainable development as they arekey source of technological know how

Kofi Annan,

ISO General Assembly, sept. 2004

"We are not asking corporations to dosomething different from their normalbusiness; we are asking them to do thisnormal business differently"

Kofi Annan

Global Compact meeting


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About the standard

Title: Guidance on Social Responsibility

Designation: ISO 26000

Target group: To be applied by all types oforganizations

Type of standard: Guidelines not intended for 3rd party certification

Target date: 3,5 years development

- to be published in october 2008


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Members of the Working Group,February 2005 ~ 300 experts from 54 countries:

Industry

Government Consumer

Labour

Non-governmental organization (NGO)

Service, support, research and Others

32 Liaison organizations

e.g. Consumers International, UN-Global Compact,

Global Reporting Initiative, ICC, IOE, ILO, OECD, SocialAccountability Int., UNIDO, WBCSD, WHO, AICC


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Members of the Working Group (2), September 2005

Stakeholder balance

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30

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70

Number of experts in different

stakeholder categories

Industry

Government

Consumer

LabourNGO

Other

66

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65


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Results so far...(2) Agreed organization of the WG including

subgroups

Agreed overall structure of the standard (DesignSpecification)

Agreed project plan:

A first working draft, spring 2006 An approved standard in October 2008

Decision on time and place for the next meeting:

Lisbon, Portugal, May 2006


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Organization of the Working Group

CAGChairs Advisory Group

TG 4

Scope, SR context& SR principles

TG 5Guidance on coreSR subjects/issues

Editing

Committee

TG 6Guidance for

organization onimplementing SR

Strategic Task Groups Standard Setting Task Groups

ISO/TMB/WG SR

STTFSpanish TranslationTask Force

FTFFrench speakingTask Force

TG 1Funding and stake-holder engagement

TG 2Communication

TG 3Operationalprocedures


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Design Specification0. Introduction

1. Scope

2. Normative references

3. Terms and definitions

4. The SR context in which organizations operate

5. SR principles relevant to organizations6. Guidance on core SR subjects/issues

7. Guidance for organizations on implementing SR

8. Guidance annexes

Bibliography


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Next steps? Drafting of the standard texts accoring to the Design

Specifikationen - starting January 2006, first Working Draft

finnished in March 2007.

Regional Workshop for Eastern Europe April 2006.

Comments on the first Working Draft from WG members -April 2006

Next meeting with the WG SR 15 19 May 2006, Lisbon

Fundraising and Stakeholder engagement activities -Ongoing


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Detailed ProjectplanDetailed Project plan WG SR - Up to the Lisbon meeting:

1 0 - 1 1 Ja n -Start-up meeting (TG 4-6 leadership and Projecteditor) 1 2 Ja n - 1 3 M a r ch ( 2 m o n t h s ) -Develop draft text for WD.1 (TG 4-

6) 1 4 - 2 7 M ar ch ( 2 w e e k s ) - Compile and edit WD.1 (Editing

committee) 2 8 M a r ch - 1 7 A p r i l ( 3 w e ek s ) - Comment on WD.1 (WG experts) 1 8 - 2 4 A p r i l ( 1 w e ek ) - Compilation of comments received (WG

secretariat) 2 5 A p r i l - 1 4 M a y ( 3 w e e k s ) - Circulation of comments received to

WG experts

2 5 A p r i l - 1 4 Ma y ( 3 w e e k s ) - Preparatory work (TG 4-6 leadership+ Project Editor) 1 5 - 1 9 M a y - WG meeting


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Further information

www.sis.se/sr

www.iso.org/sr

[email protected]

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73976 Martin Neureiter Austrian Institute of Standards ISO 26000