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Article

20 Jul 2006

Author:
Richard Tyler, Telegraph [UK]

Global suppliers feel ethical pressure

Europe's largest oil and gas companies are planning to quiz their suppliers to establish for the first time a global database on supplier corporate social responsibility policies. The survey, understood to be initially piloted by BP, Shell, Statoil and Norsk Hydro, will be sent to suppliers in September and follows a similar exercise by 45 British utility companies last month...The [UK] Government has repeatedly tried to encourage large companies to use their buying power to ensure that suppliers meet certain health and safety, employment, environmental and wider social standards, but it has pulled back from requiring companies to take account of their social impact by law...[also refers to npower (part of RWE), Gap, Nike, Royal Bank of Scotland]