Welcome on the site of the Italian National Contact Point  (NCP) for the spread of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (Guidelines). 

The NCP is the body in charge of favouring the spread - that is the acquaintance and the correct application - of the Guidelines in matter of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The Guidelines are a body of not binding principles and recommendations that every country adhering to the " OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises” (including Italy) is engaged to promote among the enterprises through their  respective National Contact Points, so that they adopt responsible behaviours in their activities.

The Italian PCN, created within the Ministry of the Economic Development. General' Directorate for Industrial Politics and Competitiveness, complies with its own task supplying information to the interested parties, assuring the respect of the Guidelines and facilitating the dialogue and the collaboration between national and international institutions, economic world and civil society.

New procedure for handling the specific instances submitted to the NCP

Due to the 2011 update fo the Guidelines, the NCP made some changes in the  procedure it follows to handle the specific instances [see the new procedure]. 

The new version of the Guidelines (see: Guidelines - Implementation Procedures) clearly states that the need to take place, again, the publication of the results of procedures, while taking into account the need to protect sensitive information, commercial and not, of businesses and other stakeholders. Consequently, it indicates, for each outcome of the procedures, the type of communication to be published and the minimum information it should contain. More specifically, there should be:

• a statement, if the NCP decides that the issues raised do not merit further examinaiton;
• a report when the parties reach an agreement on the issues raised;
• a statement, when no agreement is reached or one party is not willing to participate in the procedures