Responsibility Europe, a new international CSR label

Created on the initiative of AFNOR (France), INDR (Luxembourg) and Ecoparc (Switzerland), Responsibility Europe offers international recognition to economic players wishing to demonstrate their CSR efforts beyond national borders. It brings together CSR labels based on ISO 26000 and aligned with the SDGs.

Faced with the multiplicity of CSR labels and in support of ongoing work on non-financial information reporting, it has become essential to give greater clarity and a more assertive positioning to companies and organizations committed to CSR that go beyond self-assessment, rating, reporting or sectoral reviews. The new Responsibility Europe label makes this possible.

Issued by AFNOR in France, INDR in Luxembourg and Ecoparc in Switzerland, the Responsibility Europe label adds international recognition to companies and other organizations that have been awarded the label in their respective countries, reinforcing the credibility and legibility of their actions: a company awarded the ” Engagé RSE ” label in France, for example, can also use the Responsibility Europe label. The same applies to holders of the ESR Entreprise Responsable label in Luxembourg and the EcoEntreprise RSE label in Switzerland.

A common denominator: the voluntary ISO 26000 standard and the SDGs

This double labeling makes all the more sense since the national labels are all based on the voluntary ISO 26000 standard, the international benchmark for social responsibility since it has been adopted by 100 countries, and aligned with the 17 sustainable development goals set by the UN in 2015 for 2030. To date, more than 500 companies and organizations have been awarded the national label, and 2,500 have embarked on a CSR certification process.

The Responsibility Europe association brings together trusted third-party organizations that share European values and the conviction that CSR is a key factor in competitiveness, sustainability, innovation and resilience. ” With our partners, we want to create a European movement. We invite organizations that have developed a label to assess the social and environmental impact of organizations to join us, so that we can combine our expertise and firmly establish a European vision of CSR labeling.explains Alain Jounot, President of Responsibility Europe and head of the CSR department at AFNOR. This concert of European voices will help to raise our companies and organizations to a higher level of corporate social responsibility, and bring them to the international stage in an exemplary fashion. We’re now talking to other players about joining us. “