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OECD National Contact Point
Advisory body and mediator
Frode Elgesem, Member of Norwegian Contact Point
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Corporate Social Responsibilty – in a nutshell
• Contribute to sustainable development
• Avoid negative impact – do no harm.
• The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Entereprises are recommendations addressed by governments to the enterprises
• The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Entereprises express shared values of the governments (46 OECD and non-OECD countries)
• Purpose of UN Guiding Principles on Busieness and Human Rughts and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Entereprises: To protect people from harm from corporate activities.
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46 national contact points
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The aim of the Guidelines is to promote positive contribution by entreprises to economic, environmental and social progress
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Why should businesses follow the Guidelines? • Do the right thing – ”our shared values”
• The Guidelines are comprehensive tools for:• avoiding harm being caused and • to maintain coherence between the
company’s assurnaces to the market and its actual performance.
• Avoid criminal prosecution
• Avoid debarment from public contracts
• Protect the company’s reputation
• Strengthen the mutual conficence between the enterprises and the societies in which they operate
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Building a school or a well – social responsability or buying your way out ?
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The OECD guidelines • The broadest set of recommendations for
responsible business
• Goal : Private sector promotes sustainable development
• How to : Respect :
Environment Human Rights
Labour Rights and Working Conditions
Laws against corruption and bribes
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General Policies (excerpts)
• Refrain from seeking unwarranted exemptions.
• Develop an apply effective self-regulatory practices and management.
• Promote awareness and compliance through dissemination of policies, and training.
• Refrain from dicrimination or diciplinary adtion against whistle-blowers.
• Carry out risk-base due dilligence to identfy, prevent, and mitigate actual and potential adverse impacts on third parties.
• An ongoing, both proactive and reactive, and process-oriented activity; itg is to be carried out throughout the entire life-cycle of operations, products and services.
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General Policies (excerpts)
• Avoid causing or contributing to adverse impacts of own activity and address such impacts when they occur.
• Seek to prevent or mitigate an adverse impact not caused by the enterprise itself, but when that impact is nevertheless linked to its operations, products or services by a business relationship.
• Encourage business partners, including suppliers and sub-contractoirs, to apply principles of responsible business conduct compatible with the Guidelines.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders in order to provide meaningful opportunities for their views to be taken into account.
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The Guideliens may come into play in different ways
Cause
Contribute toyMedvirke til
Involved
Risk that the company may:
• Poor working conditions
• Environmental consequences
or Human rights violations
• Corruption
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Human Rights
• Have a policy commitment.
• Respect human rights.
• Avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts and address such impacts when they occur.
• Seek ways to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that are directly linked to their business operations, products or services by a business relationship.
• Carry out human rights due dilligence.
• Remediation of human rights impacts.
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Human Rights
• Reference should be made at a minimum to:• The International Bill of Rights:
• The Universal Decleration of Human Rights, • The International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights and• The International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights.
• The core ILO conventions as set oiut in the 1998 International Labour Organisation Declaration on Funsamental Pirnciples and Rights at Work.
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Norway’s National Contact Point – Structure and Resources
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Independent Organization of the Norwegian NCP• Four independent members appointed
• Appointment by the Foreign Minister• In cooperation with other relevant ministries
(Trade and Finance)
• Current Members:• One law professor as chair• One member nominated by the
employer/business side• One member nominated by the trade union
side• One independent lawyer nominated by civil
society organizations
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Separate Secretariat
• Separate Secretariat with 2-3 persons fulltime• paid by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs• Cannot be instructed by the Ministry, only by
the Contact Point
• Currently located in the building of the Ministry• Was and will again be separately located
• Co-location with other Human Rights Institutions is contemplated in the Government Human Rights Action Plan
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Finances
• Separate budget
• For 2015: 4 Mill NOK (430.000 EUR)
• Selected activities• Information to business• Handling cases• Participating in conferences• Human Rights Due Diligence Workshop for
selected companies• Including consultancy activities
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Complaints to National Contact Point
• Who may file a complaint?
• What is the nature of the complaint ?
• Experiences with cases
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Complaints procedure
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Examples:Fivas vs Norconsult
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Why did the NGO FIVAS file a complaint against the engineering firm Norconsult?
• Norconsult not in line with OECD guidelines ?
• Hydropower construction in Malaysia, forced
eviction of indigenous people
• What are the OECD requirements ?
• Role of Norconsult ?
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Successful mediation
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Jijnevaerie village vs Statkraft
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Environment vs tradition
• Jijnevaerie village vs Statkraft ; construction of windmill power stations
• Do the power stations destroy traditional livelihoods?
• The swedish courts ruled in favour of Statkraft
• Mediation in Norwegian Contact Point
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Result of mediation
• Mediation unsuccessful
• NCP issues statement
• Norway and Sweden handle the case
• Has Statkraft complied with OECD guidelines?• What do the guidelines say regarding
indigenous rights ? • Requirements for the company to investigate
?• Windpower and traditions ; side by side?
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OECDs guidelines - recap
• Recommendations accepted by 46 member countries
• Companies with international activity
• Global scope
• A tool for mitigating social and environmental risk
• Unique mechanism for handling of complaints
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Three tasks for the NCP
• Communicating the guidelines to the public
and stakeholders
• Handle cases through dialogue and mediation
• Cooperate with OECD and other NCPs
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Norwegian Contact Point, Mars 2015
• Impartial panel of experts + secretariat
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Mediation final statement•Fivas vs Norconsult•Committee for West-Sahara vs Sjøvik•Nature foundation vs Cermaq
Ongoing• J
ijnjevaerie vs Statkraft
Concluded and final statement• U
nited Steel Workers vs NBIM
• Cotton Campaign vs NBIM
• ForUM vs NBIM
• NGO «Fremtiden i våre hender» vs Intex
Rejected• N
orwegian climate network vs Statoil
• Roma vs Norwegian Church Aid (Kirkens nødhjelp)
• Anonomys plaintiff
Cases since 2011
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How can we help ?
• Inform
• Facilitate mediation between parties
• Manage the cases
• Provide courses and workshops in due diligence and risk mitigation.
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Pilotprosjekt Human Rights Due
Diligence
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