International revalidation ISO 26000 standard!

July 22, 2021/Martin
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Secretary Van der Werff of the CSR Quality Mark Committee.

Secretary Gerard van der Werff has informed the CSR Quality Mark Committee about the periodic evaluation of ISO 26000, the international guideline for Corporate Social Responsibility. When you talk about ISO 26000, you talk about CSR, and when you talk about CSR, you talk about ISO 26000, until today. An evaluation had to show whether this guideline could be reconfirmed. We often receive questions about this, below we briefly outline what this reconfirmation actually entails.

The reconfirmation of ISO 26000 was more than to be expected for us as the CSR Quality Mark Committee. The fact that the ISO 26000 guideline is gaining in authority can be read from a recent history. At the end of 2019, the so-called 'European Takeover' of the ISO 26000 guideline took place. This means that the 'Comité Européen de Normalisation' or CEN sees the ISO 26000 guideline as the only relevant standard, no other national standard with the scope should exist. In easier language, like the NEN is about the Dutch Norm, the CEN is about the European Norm. In the case of ISO 26000, this has thus been confirmed and reconfirmed nationally, Europeanly and internationally.

Was there nothing that went against the reaffirmation?

Yes, there was a vote on the establishment of an ISO technical committee for social responsibility. Based on a French proposal, ISO 26000 would come under the supervision of this committee. However, the reaffirmation has indicated that this committee will not be established.

Corporate Social Responsibility will therefore continue to be based on ISO 26000. In the same spirit, we are now working hard on the updated 2022 checklist, to which changes are being implemented in detail by the committee. In the interest of your national, European and international recognition, it remains important that your CSR Quality Mark is (re)confirmed!

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