BIAC Guide to the OECD Guide­lines for Multi­na­tional En­ter­prises

The OECD Guide­lines for Multi­na­tional En­ter­prises (Guide­lines) con­tain non-bind­ing rec­om­men­da­tions for re­spon­si­ble busi­ness con­duct across a wide range of cor­po­rate ac­tiv­i­ties. The Guide­lines are con­sis­tent with ap­plic­a­ble na­tional laws and are not legally en­force­able. Their ob­jec­tive is to pro­mote the pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tions that multi­na­tional en­ter­prises make to eco­nomic, en­vi­ron­men­tal and so­cial de­vel­op­ment. While the Guide­lines are ad­dressed to multi­na­tional en­ter­prises, they are also rel­e­vant for do­mes­tic com­pa­nies of any size op­er­at­ing any­where in the world. The Busi­ness and In­dus­try Ad­vi­sory Com­mit­tee to the OECD (BIAC) and its mem­ber or­ga­ni­za­tions from the OECD coun­tries re­gard the Guide­lines as a cor­ner­stone of cor­po­rate re­spon­si­bil­ity (CR). We en­cour­age all multi­na­tional en­ter­prises to use the Guide­lines as a ref­er­ence point for their cor­po­rate re­spon­si­bil­ity strate­gies and ini­tia­tives.