Commission on Corporate Responsibility and
Anti-corruption
(former Commission on Business in Society)

Mandate

The Commission has two main functions:
- to define the role of business in the context of globalization and changing societal expectations, and develop world business views key corporate responsibility issues; and

- to encourage self-regulation by business in confronting issues of extortion and bribery, and to provide business input into international initiatives to fight corruption.

Projects for 2010

• Track developments and provide world business input in major international initiatives on corporate responsibility including:
  - the Global Compact
  - the ISO Working Group on Social Responsibility
  - the mandate of the UN Special Representative on business and human rights.
• Develop an ICC perspective on the "business case" for corporate responsibility, based on company experience and existing research.
• Further develop the Commission's work on supply chain responsibility.
• Prepare with other relevant organizations a training tool, known as "RESIST", to help private sector compliance managers react to solicitation of bribes.
• Draft ICC guidelines on the use of third parties.
• Provide business input to strengthen the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) implementation process.
• Make recommendations for revisions to the ICC rules on anticorruption to take into account UNCAC.