The ECCJ seminar was hosted by Journalists @ Your Service in Brussels Monday February 1, 2010 from 10.00 – 13.00 in the J@YS meeting room. The panel consisted of Pedro Ortún (Director, responsible for CSR, the Standardisation Policy, Tourism and the “New Approach Industries” at Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, European Commission); Pervenche Berès (Chairwoman of Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and member of Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament); Carlos López, Legal Officer at the International Economic Relations unit, International Commission of Jurists; and Elin Wrzoncki, director at the globalization and human rights desk of FIDH.
Please find attached the agenda and a background piece on issues of corporate accountability at the EU level, which includes a description of ECCJ.