Appendix B. The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises:
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Text and Implementation Procedures
First Statement of Responsibility
OECD
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
11/16/10
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
Pages 189-203
GENERAL NOTES
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Annual Report on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises - http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/19990952; Annual Report on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises - OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are recommendations providing voluntary principles and standards for responsible business conduct for multinational corporations. The Guidelines are legally non-binding. The Guidelines were adopted by the OECD on 1976 and revised in 1979, 1982, 1984, 1991, 2000 and 2011.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the Guidelines) are recommendations addressed by governments to multinational enterprises. They provide voluntary principles and standards for responsible business conduct consistent with applicable laws. The Guidelines aim to ensure that the operations of these enterprises are in harmony with government policies, to strengthen the basis of mutual confidence between enterprises and the societies in which they operate, to help improve the foreign investment climate and to enhance the contribution to sustainable development made by multinational enterprises. The Guidelines are part of the OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises the other elements of which relate to national treatment, conflicting requirements on enterprises, and international investment incentives and disincentives.