Sustainability and ESG Management

eccos22® Management Assessment

Motivation and benefits

The eccos²²® Management Assessment has been developed in an international stakeholder dialogue based on a combination of the international standards and regulations ISO 26000, ISO 14001, ONR 192500 (“ONR” = Rule of the Austrian Standards Institute), SA 8000® (Social Accountability), SR 10 (Social Responsibility), GRI 4 (Global Reporting Initiative), AA 1000 (AccountAbility), OECD Guidelines for Multinationals, UN Global Compact and the EFQM Excellence Model. This means that an internationally renowned tool for assessing ecological and social responsibility of companies has been created, independent of sector and company size.

eccos²²® provides a management assessment based on international standards and regulations relating to the evidence of sustainable economy and the assessment of the company’s fitness for innovation and future by third parties.

The aim is, on the one hand, to establish the organization’s positioning on the sustainability-based business management system CSR. On the other hand, a common language to support the networking of systems and applications of the value network of companies is the key factor for productivity and effectivity in the age of Industry 4.0.

These current developments can be seen as follows:

  • changed international procurement guidelines and directives for international requests for quotation; these guidelines and directives require a relief of the environment and added social value
  • new rules for the financial and investment sectors (e.g. EU taxonomy regulation) as well as reporting requirements (CSRD, ESRS)
  • circular economy, environmental relief and a holistic approach of the supply chain are of substantial relevance (e.g. supply chain sourcing obligations, waste law issues, etc.)
  • orientation according to the guidelines of the new Austrian government programme and/or the continuously adapted national legislation
Objectives
  • Sustainability as a competitive advantage of the company through strategic differentiation
  • increasing the acceptance and trust of authorities, investors, banks and public financial donors
  • cost and competitive advantage due to the reduction of shadow costs
  • Increased resilience of business model and strategy through comprehensive focus on sustainability requirements and aspects

The eccos²²® certificate certifies...

  • the compliance and respectively the orientation of the corporate management along international principles, guidelines and norms of the worldwide applicable Corporate Social Responsibility Standard ISO 26000
  • the continuous advancement of the core strategy, core processes and communication with stakeholders in combination with the sustainability strategy of the organization
  • the degree of maturity of the system performance and value added by the system under consideration of the international eco.soc Standards
  • the impact orientation on the main stakeholders and focus on environmental relief and social value added

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Certificate

As a result, the company receives the qualityaustria eccos²²® Certificate and furthermore an award with the first international eccos²²® Seal of Excellence in Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility from the CSR Dialogforum. Following the assessment, the jury of the CSR Dialogforum, consisting of experts from science and business (advisory board), decides on the receipt of the seal of approval resp. on the maturity level of the company regarding sustainable management and corporate social responsibility.

The company can also expect a professional feedback by experts regarding the extent to which quality standards are met in the context of the company‘s overall future sustainability. In addition, there is the possibility of certification according to ONR 192500

Target group

The introduction of the eccos²²® Management Assessment is especially intended for internationally operating companies that pursue a targeted, coherent, credible strategy of the topic sustainability and corporate responsibility towards the stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers, lenders, international partners and NGOs).

Winners of the Austrian Excellence Award and companies that have already dealt with ways to professionalize their system performance will, at the assessment, be credited the degree of development by being granted points.

The CSR Dialogue Forum introduces itself

The "Int. CSR Dialogforum - Competence Center for Integrated Sustainability in Business and Society” is a non-profit organization accredited by the United Nations. The organization understands itself as being non-partisan and non-denominational and acts on an international scale.

The goal of the organization is to promote sustainable action in business and society and to support it through offerings that address the current challenges of sustainability. The focus is on the major opportunities that arise for companies, business and society from an orientation toward integrated, i.e. holistic, sustainability. Guiding principles for this are the United Nations Agenda 2030, the EU Green Deal including all associated requirements, and the ISO 26000 guideline.

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