AIM-PROGRESS - Newsletter

Mutual Recognition

"An audit for one is an audit for all" - 25 members have now signed up to our joint principles on Mutual Recognition of audits, the latest newcomers being SAB Miller and McDonald’s.

GMA/FMI Sustainability Summit on 3-5 October 2012

AIM-PROGRESS will be present at the GMA/FMI sustainability summit in Washington in early October.

AIM-PROGRESS grows membership

AIM-PROGRESS continues to grow in size. Since the last newsletter two new companies have joined.

The importance of Human Rights for Businesses

Implementing the UN Principles on Business and Human Rights through due diligence in companies' operations is the objective of a new AIM-PROGRESS work stream, set up in March 2012.

Transparency International becomes a new Member of the Advisory Board

The AIM-PROGRESS Advisory Board is composed of representatives of the business and NGO sector and acts as a consultative body to AIM-PROGRESS.

LIbrary of relevant CSR initiatives in the agricultural sector

Many AIM-PROGRESS members' supply chains reach into the agricultural sector.

Supplier Awareness and Training events

Supplier Capability Building is important for AIM-PROGRESS members to raise CSR level throughout their supply chains.

Business Integrity

Eliminating corruption and bribery from our supply chains is one of AIM-PROGRESS' focus areas.

AIM-PROGRESS and the Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP)

GSCP Board Chair, Marcela Manubens of PHV, presented to the June 2012 AIM-PROGRESS meeting in Dublin to familiarize AIM-PROGRESS members with their mission and activities and to discuss potential synergies.

US Conflict Minerals legislation - rules now published

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act regulates the disclosure by companies of the use of conflict minerals (tantalum, tin, gold tungsten) originating in the Democratic Republic of Congo or adjoining countries. It required the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue a final rule on the exact reporting modalities .