1.1.2.2.1 The European Parliament Report on the Communication from the European Commission concerning Corporate Social Responsibility: A Business Contribution to Sustainable Development

On the 28th of April of 2003 the European Parliament released a report on the communication from the European Commission concerning CSR: A Business Contribution to Sustainable Development.1 In the explanatory statement, the European Parliament sates that “There is a real danger that the Parliament is being frozen out of the process in a way that is unacceptable: it is worth noting that the Commission’s CSR Communication (2nd of July of 2002) was effectively written before the Parliament’s response to the Green Paper had been absorbed.”2 According to the European Parliament’s report, the European Parliament’s views on CSR were not considered in the European Commission’s Communication on CSR. Therefore, the European Parliament was not satisfied with the unconcern showed by the European Commission when releasing the document beforehand.