AN INFORMATION-BASED VIEW AT THE 'COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: A RENEWED EU STRATEGY 2011-2014 FOR THE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY' (EU 2011)

The Commission aims to create conditions favourable to sustainable growth, responsible business behaviour and durable employment generation. Social responsibility requires processes of innovating habits of all humans, societies and especially all decision makers; towards required and requisite holism, based on ethics of interdependence. Such changes should assure that social responsibility will develop into real innovative solution of current social problems. Corporate social responsibility concerns actions by companies over and above their legal obligations towards society and the environment. Draft suggestions in three groups of criteria for an informal system about social responsibility of organizations are presented Horus award in Slovenia was introduced to promote public awareness about meaning and importance of social responsibility and encourage such behavior in Slovenian organizations.