Thursday, May 23, 2013

Speech: Sustainability and reporting: Europe at the forefront


Global conference on sustainability and reporting (GRI)

Ladies and gentlemen,

First of all, let me thank the Global Reporting Initiative and its chief executive Ernst LIGTERINGEN for inviting me today.

I also want to thank Teresa FOGELBERG for her active contribution to the European Commission's work on non-financial information.

Today, I want to focus on the EU proposal on non-financial, corporate reporting, published in April this year. I also want to draw your attention to the newly agreed European reporting rules for extractive industries and banks.

See full Transcript: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-444_en.htm?locale=en