PAIiIZ has been acting as Poland's OECD National Contact Point (NCP) since 2001. One of the Agency’s goals is to promote the OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.  According to PAIiIZ the Guidelines are gaining in significance and exerting ever greater influence on companies and their corporate social responsibility policy-making.

 
PAIiIZ interprets corporate social responsibility as a concept whereby organizations consider the interests of society by taking responsibility for the impact of their activities beyond their commercial interests. In the increasingly conscience-focused marketplaces of the 21st century, PAIiIZ believes that corporate social responsibility develops not simply to satisfy social expectations but because companies perceive such an approach to be essential in their policies.

The aim of the conference was to promote the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, in recognition of the need to define best practices in relationship building between foreign investors and stakeholders in special economic zones.  The meeting, opened by Mr Rafał Baniak, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Economy, and Mr Paweł Wojciechowski, President of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency, was attended by management and investors’ representatives of the Katowice and Starachowice Special Economic Zones as well as by delegates from the Polish Humanitarian Organization, Podkarpacie Chamber of Commerce, the University of Opole, the Polish Directors Institute and the organizers’ delegates.

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