<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>As you can see below European Commission just released human rights guidance for 3 business sectors. I have helped COM and specifically IHRB with their piece of the work, and I know others on this list have also helped. Everything from more formal support to extremely good comments that have helped making the documents what they finally ended up being.</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "> Patrik Fältström</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "> Head of Research and Development</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "> Netnod</span></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:entr-csr@ec.europa.eu">entr-csr@ec.europa.eu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>From the European Commission: human rights guidance for 3 business sectors</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">17 juni 2013 18:23:09 CEST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:entr-csr@ec.europa.eu">entr-csr@ec.europa.eu</a>><br></span></div><br><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Typewriter'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">We are pleased to announce the publication of the <b>European Commission</b> <b>Sector Guides on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><img width="141" height="200" id="Picture_x0020_1" alt="cid:ii_13f3d222c0c3589c" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image007.png@01CE6B87.B7A6C500"></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><img width="141" height="200" id="Picture_x0020_2" alt="cid:ii_13f3d2287cf6fc44" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image008.png@01CE6B87.B7A6C500"></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><img width="143" height="200" id="Picture_x0020_3" alt="cid:ii_13f3d2304e0f8991" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image009.png@01CE6B87.B7A6C500"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Download the Guides here: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=6711&lang=en&title=European%2DCommission%2Dpublishes%2Dhuman%2Drights%2Dguidance%2Dfor%2D3%2Dbusiness%2Dsectors" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=6711&lang=en&title=European%2DCommission%2Dpublishes%2Dhuman%2Drights%2Dguidance%2Dfor%2D3%2Dbusiness%2Dsectors</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Guides – for <b>employment and recruitment</b> agencies, <b>ICT</b> companies, and<b> oil and gas</b> companies – </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">were developed over the past 18 months by </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.shiftproject.org/" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Shift</span></a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">and <a href="http://www.ihrb.org/" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">IHRB</a> through extensive research and multistakeholder consultation with representatives from the three industries as well as governments, trade unions, civil society, academia and other experts. Read more about the Guides’ development <a href="http://www.ihrb.org/project/eu-sector-guidance/index.html" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">here</a>.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Each Guide offers practical advice on how to implement the corporate responsibility to respect human rights in day-to-day business operations in each industry through step-by-step guidance. At each step, they summarise what the UN Guiding Principles expect, offer a range of approaches and examples for how to put them into practice, and link users to additional resources that can support their work. They are intended to help companies “translate” respect for human rights into their own systems and cultures.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Many thanks to all those who have contributed to this process.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span><br></span><span style="color: gray; ">CSR Team<br><br>European Commission<br>Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General<br>Unit ENTR.D.1</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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