CSR: THE ITALIAN GOVERNEMENT COMMITMENT FOR THE FUTURE (D.VASSELLI)

The third National Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility topics has been held in Rome lately. Among the people attending the meeting, there were many representatives of political, social and business Italian world and for the first time a new member of the European Commission for Labour ands social Affairs, Vladimir Spidla, who announced the next European Commission 'communication will be about CSR topics and those concerning companies' transparency. In his opening speech, Minister of employment and social Affairs Maroni reminded and stressed the subject for discussion's requirements, that is CSR practices must be voluntary and they should become corporate assets. Furthermore it will be necessary defining an evaluation and measurement tool of CSR topics' standard of awareness by Italian entrepreneurs, in order to make it suitable in particular to SME (by now only a set of indicators has been settled and tested within 25 companies).