Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

The Guidelines are recommendations addressed by governments to multinational enterprises operating in or from adhering countries. They provide voluntary principles and standards for responsible business conduct in areas such as employment and industrial relations, human rights, environment, information disclosure, combating bribery, consumer interests, science and technology, competition, and taxation. Permanent URL: www.oecd.org/daf/investment/guidelines

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Tunisia and Morocco join multilateral business integrity and green growth instruments

23-May-2012

Tunisia and Morocco signed up today to a series of international instruments in areas ranging from business integrity to international investment and green growth. Adherence to these instruments is an expression of a long-standing co-operation between countries in North Africa and the OECD.

Kazakhstan needs to streamline its foreign investment regime, says OECD

15-Mar-2012

Kazakhstan needs to streamline its foreign investment regime, improve its investment climate and promote responsible business conduct in order to attract more foreign direct investment and help diversify its economy, according to a new OECD Investment Policy Review.

A new agenda for the future - 2011 Annual report on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

08-Dec-2011

The 2011 annual report outlines the major improvements brought about by the 5th revision of the Guidelines since they were first adopted in 1976 and describes highlights from a multi-stakeholder brainstorming on how best to implement them.

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