19 June 2002, Paris, France

On 19 June 2002, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting for National Contact Points, the OECD held a Roundtable on "Corporate Responsibility: Supply Chains and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises".

Chapter II of the Guidelines states that "enterprises should... encourage where practicable, business partners, including suppliers and sub-contractors, to apply principles of corporate conduct compatible with the Guidelines".

Participants to the Roundtable were invited to consider the concrete steps that companies can take to implement this recommendation.

The Roundtable was structured as follows:

• Session I. Business Conduct in the Supply Chain
• Session II. Management and Control Issues for Multinational Enterprises
• Session III. Impact of corporate responsibility initiatives for the supply chain
• Session IV. Next Steps: Enhancing the Implementation of the OECD Guidelines

Documentation

• Draft annotated agenda / Projet d'ordre du jour annoté
• Opening Remarks , Richard E. Hecklinger, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD
• List of participants
• BIAC Discussion paper on supply chain management
• Managing working conditions in the supply chain - a fact-finding study of corporate practices
• Pursuing corporate responsibility in China: experiences of a small enterprise in the optical industry , Serena Lillywhite
• Summary of the discussion

See also:

• Annual Meetings for National Contact Points
• The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Annual Report 2001
• Summary Report of the 2001 Annual Meeting of NCPs
• 2001 Roundtable on Global Instruments for Corporate Responsiblity